icon for "applying changes" in Update manager is negative and misleading

[Jane Silber]

When you update packages through the Update Manager, there is a pop up window called Applying Changes which gives a progress bar. Next to the text in that window there is an icon of a red circle with a bar through it - a common symbol for no or stop or generally negative things. But the action happening here is a good one - the system is simply applying changes as requested. It's confusing to the user to give mixed messages like this, and a different icon should be used instead.

[Vish (vish)]

Could you add a screenshot? so that we can understand the problem better.

[scholli (scholli-tz)]

He means only the "picture-not-available"-symbol you see if the windows changes to Apply Changes. The updates are downloading you see a package with a globe.

I saw in Fedora that this icons are animated. Would be really nice to see a rotating globe by downloading and by Applying Changes a package with a paper and a moving pencil on it. But the minimum is a static package-symbol with for example the gedit-icon in the front.

I hope it's clear what I mean.

Cheers

[scholli (scholli-tz)]

applying changes screenshot

[scholli (scholli-tz)]

updating cache screenshot

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 436159, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.