intrepid session dialog experience
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
gnome-session (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Low
|
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs | ||
Intrepid |
Won't Fix
|
Low
|
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Intrepid has a new set of session dialogs, Log Out and Shut Down (with Lock Screen as a separate menu item) that replace the previous Quit dialog. These come from SuSE patches that are expected to be eventually upstream.
Log Out has:
Log Out
Switch User
Shut Down has:
Shut Down
Restart
Suspend
Hibernate
We also will now have Ted's fast-user-
There is a remaining decision:
Are two dialogs better than one? In previous Ubuntu releases, we only ever had one "Quit" dialog that contained all of the available options. This now gives us two, and for the first time (in Ubuntu) attempts to establish a difference between "Log Out" and "Shut Down".
This notably causes a surprising experience when pressing the power button, previously this showed all of the available options - now it only shows the Log Out (!) options.
Switching between Users is very arguably completely covered by the new applet, and Lock Screen is happy as its own menu item (it never fitted in the list otherwise).
Thus should we merge the two dialogs back into one Quit dialog, that would simply add the Log Out option?
Quit:
Log Out
Shut Down
Restart
Suspend
Hibernate
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in gnome-session: | |
assignee: | nobody → desktop-bugs |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-8.10-beta |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in gnome-session: | |
importance: | Wishlist → Low |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in gnome-session: | |
status: | Invalid → Won't Fix |
On Desktop Experience we've talked about putting this into the fast user switching applet. I promise I'll clean up a patch and such next week when I'm back home.