Darken the screen towards end of timed confirmation dialog

[David Prieto]

The confirmation dialogs on their own do not stand out from the crowd on the desktop. Also, because they are timed, it is easy to leave them there while thinking about something else, and one gets an "eek!" experience when the time runs out unexpectedly.

So, please fade the background (everything behind the confirmation dialog) between seconds 40 and 50, so that it is start black for the last 10 seconds with just the confirmation dialog visible. Moving the mouse alone should not pause the fade or the clock, clicking Cancel should simply restore the brightness to the screen (smoothly, over about 300ms), dismiss the dialog and abort the logout / shutdown / restart.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

I agree with this request, and am upgrading the priority to High. I'll ask that this be done for 9.10.

Ted, could you put this on your list, please? I'll update the description to be a mini-spec.

[David Prieto (frandavid100-gmail)]

It seems there is a brainstorm idea about this, with 409 votes for it: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/18968/

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.