Thanks for the report. The previous behavior was rather eccentric. Security updates that require restart aren't inherently more important than security updates that don't. So it wouldn't make sense for us to highlight any menu when available security updates happen to require a restart, but not when they don't.
So how about if we highlighted a menu when *any* security updates were available? Well we used to do the equivalent of that before 2009, with the update-notifier panel applet. We replaced that with the Software Updater alert. But even if it was still a good idea to highlight a menu bar element when updates were available, the session menu wouldn't be the appropriate menu to use; it contains nothing about updates. (This is a drawback of referring to the menus as "indicators". In many cases they do indicate things, but not all. That seems incomplete given their name, but it's fine for a user who never sees that term.) ** Changed in: indicator-session (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1180860 Title: Session (gear) indicator not changing to red when restart required To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-session/+bug/1180860/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs