Comment 3 for bug 296396

The flow around login, logout, screenlock, userswitch, power off etc is very confusing for less-experienced users.
The flow has to be unified and simplified and also integrated with poweroff, suspend, and hibernate. Furthermore automatic logout is necessary when running multi-user and systems for professional applications.

With the present implementation users have to keep track of a lot of buttons, many different screens, and several states and conditions.
In Karmic this scenario got much worse since the login screen changed to a completely new format and some states lead to a completely white screen. (type Esc on the password field and you get a completely white screen)

We really would like to see a solution for these problems in order to be able to deploy Ubuntu on a small to medium business enterprise IT-environment.