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Indicate that a restart will be needed *before* installing an update #677

Open AndreiMiculita opened 3 years ago

AndreiMiculita commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When installing a set of updates, some of them might require a restart. It might come as a surprise to the user. The only way to sort of predict it is to check the type of the update, but even then it's not explicitly defined which types of update would require a restart.

Describe the solution you'd like For each update, clearly indicate whether a restart will be required, in the list of updates.

Additional context I think the most visually intuitive way to do it, is to make it visually similar to the current reboot notification for kernel updates (#478). So, change the background of that particular update to the same color as the one used for the notification.

Another option would be to add an extra column for the table that contains the updates, or to color the "type" icon differently.