new logout dialog interface issues
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-session (Ubuntu) |
New
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The new logout dialog has several issues which make it confusing or inconvenient.
The first problem is the location of the buttons. In all GNOME dialogs, the main action button is the bottom right button. However, with the new dialog, the "main" action button "Logout" (for most corporate and many home users) is in the upper left corner of the dialog. Before even reading the text of the buttons, users are in the habit of moving the mouse to that bottom right corner, only to then realize that none of the actions they want are anywhere near that corner.
The second problem is that in addition to the 6 action buttons, there is also a regular style Cancel button. This makes a completely alien and consistency-
The third problem is the artificial, and likely unintentional, grouping of the buttons. The actions are split into two rows. Even if this was merely a stylistic issue of trying to get a 2x3 grid, the addition of the separator makes the rows *appear* to be two conceptually separate sections. Yet we see that there are four buttons dealing with powering the machine, one of which is grouped with the session management buttons in the top row. This is confusing. It also makes finding the button you want difficult, since they aren't put in any sort of meaningful contextual pattern.
A large issue with the dialog is that there are simply far too many buttons. Six is too many. I would suggest either cutting out some of the buttons (do we really need Hibernate and Suspend, when those should be enacted by physical actions like closing a laptop lid or pressing a power button?) or splitting the dialog up and adding another menu entry to the System menu in addition to Log Out. Or just sucking it up and going back to the stock GNOME dialog where at least things are consistent and clean and make sense.
I agree, this really needs to be fixed.
The quality of this dialog really stood out on https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/DapperFligh t3