Comment 44 for bug 1246364

Launchpad statistics report 300 downloads for my patched Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) builds.

In order to download those packages, all 300 of those people had to figure out what package was responsible for the removed functionality, find their way to this bug report, read through the comments to discover my PPA builds, and take it upon themselves to either add my PPA to their systems or manually download and install my package. For each of those 300 people who had the knowledge and perseverance to overcome all those obstacles, there are surely more who did not, and simply had their workflows broken by this bug.

The usability studies that led to this change were obviously flawed.

Dear maintainers, I hope you will reconsider your earlier decision soon, and fix the problem. I have already done the hard part for you. We, along with those who haven't the time or knowledge to speak up in this bug report, are depending on you.

For now, I have attached new patches for the version of update-notifier that is current in Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial):

restore_icon.patch is an update of my earlier patch.

restore_reboot.patch builds upon that work, additionally restoring the "Reboot Required" UI.

I have also uploaded new builds to my PPA for Ubuntu Xenial. These include both of my patches, along with updated debian packaging (actually just an additional line in debian/update-notifier.install) to ensure the reboot-dialog.ui file gets installed.

https://launchpad.net/~foresto/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntutweaks/