No power icon (unclear how to shutdown)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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indicator-session (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: indicator-session
As of Karmic Beta there is currently no visual clues for how to quit a desktop session. Why would a user assume that they need to click their name to logout? I propose adding a power on/off icon to the right of the name as in previous Ubuntu releases. In other words the button would be as follows:
[speech bubble icon][username]
This is a fairly serious issue since this is the only way to logout of a default install, yet it is entirely undiscoverable except through random clicking of panel items.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 5 12:27:17 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: indicator-session 0.1.5-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: indicator-session
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
Changed in indicator-session (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in indicator-session (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
summary: |
- No power icon (unclear how to shutdown) + [UI Freeze Exception]No power icon (unclear how to shutdown) |
summary: |
- [UI Freeze Exception]No power icon (unclear how to shutdown) + No power icon (unclear how to shutdown) |
I have to agree here. I've had two non-techie family members use Ubuntu for a little while and both of them have asked how to turn it off - this should be more obvious than it is. One possible solution is to display "Session" instead of the user's name, then at least the menu's purpose makes sense just from looking at it. But then you have the problem that you don't know who is logged in. Perhaps the menu is trying to do too much? I would argue we need two menus the first has:
Username
- Available
- Away
- Busy
- Invisible
- Offline
- Guest session
- Other user sessions
- Lock screen
- Log out
Then another one with just a power icon or something that has
- Shutdown
- Restart
- Suspend
- Hibernate
So the first has session related actions that don't affect other users. The second has power related actions that DO affect other users. Then the inclusion/removal of the second menu would change what appears under "System".