The methods Shutdown and RequestShutdown in org.gnome.SessionManager do the same

[hakaishi]

I've looked into the source of gnome-session-bin and noticed that the methods Shutdown and RequestShutdown of the org.gnome.SessionManager interface both start the shutdown-dialog. In the file org.gnome.SessionManager.xml it is clearly stated that RequestShutdown (line 319-325) should not start a Dialog while Shutdown (line 251-257) should.

It actually works normally when one uses Unity, but not with the gnome-shell.

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04, but this problem has been occuring since some time before 12.04. (I've noticed it because I'm the programmer of qshutdown)
The difference to the System(s) before 12.04 was that the shutdown-dialog was not called in both cases.

You can test this with "dbus-send --session --dest=org.gnome.SessionManager /org/gnome/SessionManager org.gnome.SessionManager.RequestShutdown". The system should shutdown without popping up a dialog (prompt).

Just to mention another problem coming with this: When setting (lets say with the dconf-editor) at org->gnome->gnome-session (also org.gnome.SessionManager) logout-prompt to false, no dialogs are shown at all (with either Method) and clicking on Shutdown in the indicator menu also just shuts down instead of showing the option(s) to reboot etc.

[hakaishi (hakaishi)]

I think this bug effects everyone, but nobody might notice it because every average user uses only the GUI and dialogs to shutdown. Who would use the dbus-send command to shutdown/reboot the computer except of programmers?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.