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Visual issues with security update indication in updates page

!1676 (merged) introduced a new indication to show when updates contain security fixes:

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Issues with these:

  • The icons are in inconsistent positions and have inconsistent sizes. People might not realise that they mean the same thing.
  • While the icon used is correct from a icon theme perspective, I don't think that it its meaning will be immediately recognised. "Exclamation badge inside a frilly badge" isn't a commonly recognised symbol.
  • The symbolic replaces the system-component-os-update icon. That disrupts the list as a whole. We're actively avoiding symbolics here - that's why we introduced the system-component* icons in the first place.
  • It will look unbalanced having an icon on the right, when that spot is reserved for update buttons in some sections.

My suggestion would be to replace the current visual treatment with the following:

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This appends emblem-important-symbolic to the end of the row title.