Deskbar "Computer Actions" unclean

[John Moser]

Binary package hint: deskbar-applet

Deskbar's computer actions are very unclean. At the very least, "Shutdown" and "Reboot" blurt out a 'shutdown -[hr] now' with reckless abandon; this behavior is similar to that of GNOME's log-out menu in bug #45689.

In my case, I noted Firefox claiming it crashed and wanting to restore the session when I came back. Deskbar doesn't tell gnome-session to log-out and initiate shutdown; and so programs aren't asked nicely to quit. Some potential for data loss may exist here.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

How is that different from bug #79303?

[John Moser (nigelenki)]

Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> How is that different from bug #79303?
>

Because 79303 says that if you type "Shutdown," or accidentally
mis-click it while trying to get rid of the command history dialog, your
computer shuts down (with no chance to cancel). The big problem here
is... you might accidentally shut down. When I accidentally click the
"Log Out" button in the top right, it doesn't just log me out; it asks.

This bug says that if you type "Shutdown," you get shutdown without
logging out of Gnome; i.e., kill -9 gnome-session style log-out (more
realistically it's probably that gdm got stopped). The big problem here
is sometimes this destroys the entire gconf2 settings tree.

[Mahesh Kale (maheshkale)]

I still thik there is simmilarity between bug #79303 what you think?

But i do agree when kill -9 gnome-sessions is used it kills the settings tree.I think someone reported this a long ago.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[nglnx (nglnx)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!