Sorry, but this change was deliberate. A red icon may have worked for you, but that does not mean it worked for most or even many people.
The red icon dates from the era when the rightmost menu was a "device menu", trying to cover everything from attached printers to external displays to software updates to screen locking, which was absurd. Nowadays everything to do with software updates is integrated into Software Updater, including the restart notification. It will sometimes be true that the alert appears when it's not a good time to restart; but you can leave it open (even minimized) until you're ready. ** Changed in: indicator-session Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1346355 Title: 14.04 power-cog does not turn red when restart is needed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-session/+bug/1346355/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs