user must find windows that block shutdown

Bug #1036062 reported by mlg7
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gedit (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
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Bug Description

1. configure your environment to use 10 desktops (the number is not really important, but I use 10)
2. on each desktop, open some application windows (Eclipse, web browsers, terminal, android's abd logcat, mc, etc)
3. spend some time working; when you see a text that looks important, open a gedit window and copy the important text there.
4. select shutdown in Gnome

Actual: shutdown is blocked; you can cancel it but to review the unsaved documents you have to locate them yourself, looking through all your desktops and all your windows

Expected: shutdown is blocked, but you can review all unsaved documents without cancelling the shutdown; there's a "magic button" that causes the next unsaved document to appear on the _current_ desktop _on_top_ of other windows so that you can read it and decide what to do with it.

PS I hate such shutdowns, but some updates require it, and the software (including Eclipse) sometimes glitches, making me suspect a global resource leak.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gedit 2.30.4-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-15.64-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-15-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 13 10:57:14 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110426)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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mlg7 (mlg7) wrote :
Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, I'm pretty sure it's a duplicate and a ticket has been opened years ago but I can't find it, some bug triager should look at that and close it as duplicate though

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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

This version is no longer supported; EOL reached since a while.

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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