Bug 355288

Summary:	Software update tray icon misunderstanding
Product:	[Plasma] Breeze	Reporter:	Guo Yunhe <i>
Component:	Icons	Assignee:	Uri Herrera <uri_herrera>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	kainz.a, mklapetek, rdieter, uri_herrera
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.4.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Guo Yunhe 2015-11-13 13:38:17 UTC

When there are only optional, non-security updates, the tray icon is a shield with green check.
http://i.imgur.com/QGec72Z.png

When there is no updates, it also shows this icon. (I keep it always visable in tray) So I do not know if there is updates available.

I think "green check" tray icon gives a feeling of everything is well, nothing to do, or update has finnished. My suggestion is :

No updates -> green check
Optional updates, New feature updates -> blue plus (+)
Security updates -> orange exclamation mark (!)
Serious security updates -> red cross (×)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Uri Herrera 2015-11-14 07:34:55 UTC

Problem is there's only 3 states: high, medium and low. Now, I don't know what software is using the icons as various package managers use them. I know Muon updater uses them so perhaps this is the case.

Also, in the Plasma theme there's an element which does provide icons for these kind of notifications (software updates). Some of icons included in this item are close to what you're suggesting but as far as I know the software has to have some sort of integration with the system tray.

Comment 2 Guo Yunhe 2015-11-14 08:11:21 UTC

plasma5-pk-updates is the package name of software updater I am using. I think its maintainer might know something.

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2015-11-14 17:04:04 UTC

plasma-pk-updates is not currently a kde.org project (as far as I know), best to  request of them at
https://github.com/caybro/plasma-pk-updates