The new update indicator shows a user what packages need to be updated. It has a mode that informs if some updated package requires a reboot to take effect, such as a Kernel update. However when clicking on that in the bar the system is immediately rebooted. It seems from experience that people sometimes just randomly click things and so we would not want the system to just suddenly reboot. The ideal experience IMO would be to copy the pattern of the reboot hotkey in i3:
The new update indicator shows a user what packages need to be updated. It has a mode that informs if some updated package requires a reboot to take effect, such as a Kernel update. However when clicking on that in the bar the system is immediately rebooted. It seems from experience that people sometimes just randomly click things and so we would not want the system to just suddenly reboot. The ideal experience IMO would be to copy the pattern of the reboot hotkey in i3: