Misleading ellipsis in "Restart now..."

[Egmont Koblinger]

Every once in a while, upon updating the system, you're requested to reboot.

The dialog has buttons: "Settings...", "Reboot later" and "Reboot now...".

By convention, ellipsis ("...") in applications' menu entries and buttons means that you're presented with a subsequent dialogue asking for further option before the action is executed. E.g. "Save" (without ellipsis) saves immediately, whereas "Save As..." (with ellipsis) asks for a new filename.

This is not what happens here, the system is rebooted immediately.

Expected:

- Either remove the three dots and make the button simply say "Reboot now".

or

- Present a followup dialog presenting I-don't-know-what other options or warning about potential data loss in some apps, and asking for confirmation.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: update-manager 1:16.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-18.34-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu1
Aptdaemon:

Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Apr 9 21:23:46 2016
GsettingsChanges:
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'617'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'484'
 b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1460229367'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-05-30 (1410 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-02-13 (55 days ago)

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

I got affected by this bug. After the update had completed and I chose "Reboot now...", I expected a dialogue to choose from Restart and Shut Down. I wanted to shut down but instead it restarted without confirmation. This wasted some time to start up again and shut down.

[Andreas Fritiofson (andreas-fritiofson)]

I'm pretty sure that at some point in previous releases, the normal system Shut down dialog has been shown after clicking "Reboot now..." so I could choose to shut down instead of reboot. Usually, I defer rebooting until I anyway want to shut down, so "Shut down" is the normal choice for me.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:17.04.2

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update-manager (1:17.04.2) zesty; urgency=medium

  [ Jeremy Bicha ]
  * Update alternate dependencies for policykit-1-gnome:
    - Add virtual polkit-1-auth-agent
    - Replace non-existant policykit-1-kde with polkit-kde-agent-1
    - Replace razorqt-policykit-agent with lxqt-policykit
      (since lxqt is the replacement for razorqt)

  [ Manzur Mukhitdinov ]
  * UpdateManager/Core/MetaRelease.py:
    - Add a clearer error message when a network failure occurs

  [ Brian Murray ]
  * UpdateManager/Dialogs.py:
    - Remove misleading ellipsis in “Restart Now” action button. Thanks to
      Adolfo Jayme for the change. (LP: #1568368)

  [ Steve Langasek ]
  * Drop estimate_kernel_size_in_boot() from UpdateManager/Core/utils.py; this
    was only used in ubuntu-release-upgrader so the code has now moved there
    (with code fixes). Ensure upgrade ordering with Breaks: on older
    python3-distupgrade. LP: #1646222.

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Wed, 08 Mar 2017 10:01:30 -0800

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

Please nominate for Xenial.

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

> Please nominate for Xenial.

I’m against any attempt of backporting this change to Xenial. Please note that this kind of changes (modifications to translatable strings) need work from every single translation team, and it’s not acceptable to let users of Ubuntu in languages different from English see such a prominent button suddenly untranslated due to an update.

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

Thanks for the fix, guys!

I fully agree with Adolfo. It's not just the translations, but also that updates should be fixes for severe issues only. This is nowhere near them.