Comment 11 for bug 234884

Context menu is unsuitable. Task manager should be a die-hard thing. In Windows ctrl-alt-del either runs taskmanager or unconditionally pops up dialog allowing to run task manager. Therefore, it IS die-hard here. Ctrl-alt-del is very diehard shortcut in Windows, virtually no prog's can override it and it unconditionally brings task manager or special system dialog.

Ubuntu is another story. Once some app has encountered problem and gone mad, you may have trouble launching task manager.

Context menu? Menu of what? Task panel? What if problematic program managed to put itself over task panel? And what if someone does not want to see task panel over other apps at all? In Windows this is secondary method to run task manager. If this will be here secondary method, I see no prob's. But primary method should be something else.

Let's repeat: there should be easy and die-hard way to run task manager (ideally, this probably should be customizable and die-hard keyboard shortcut). Task manager should not assume that problematic tasks are friendly, so it have to put itself sticky over all windows, it should boost own priority over other prog's, etc. All this just to avoid scenario when failed or misbehaving program overrides task manager appearance. Normally, nobody starts task manager just for fun. It's rather started as emergency thing to deal with hanged or resource hog programs and in similar scenarios. Surely, skilled users can switch to console and this IS quite diehard. But "average Joe" will have hard times here.