[Bug 2126662] Re: "System restart required" notification is missing an app name/icon

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This bug was fixed in the package update-notifier - 3.201

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update-notifier (3.201) questing; urgency=medium

  * Use update-manager.desktop name and icon for the reboot notification
    (LP: #2126662)

 -- Alessandro Astone <alessandro.astone at canonical.com>  Thu, 02 Oct
2025 16:08:18 +0200

** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  "System restart required" notification is missing an app name/icon

Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  The "System restart required" notification, which shows up after
  applying an update that flags /var/run/reboot-required, is not
  associated with any application. Thus, GNOME Shell falls back to
  showing the name of the process requesting the notification.

  We should not be showing process names to the user. We should set the
  "desktop-entry" hint so that notification servers like GNOME Shell can
  show the notification as originating from an application with a name
  and icon.

  The notification comes from the `update-notifier` process, which is
  not an application in itself. We can claim that the originating
  application is `update-manager.desktop`, which makes sense for a
  notification asking to reboot after applying system updates.

  Before (below) and after (above):
  https://people.ubuntu.com/~aleasto/reboot-notification.png

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