Confirmation for logout-restart-shutdown is a loss of time for most users
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ayatana Ubuntu |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Session Menu |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
indicator-session (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When the user clicks on "Logout", or "Restart" or "Shutdown", a window pop-ups and requires the user to confirm his action.
I believe this window is useless, anti-productive (loss of time) for most users. [Workaround : Alt-F2 enter "gconf-editor", Apps>indicator-
The only reason that would make me keep it is Accessibility : some people can't target very sharply with the mouse (but in this case we should improve all other applets' accessibility...). For this reason, we could add a "Don't show this window any more in the future" option in the confirmation window, so that the user has the choice to remove it or not.
If I remember well, in Karmic there was a 60s delay after which the confirmation was automatically activated. I don't think this was a good idea, for security matter, and also because Ubuntu boot is (/should be) now faster than 60s.
Hope this helps making Ubuntu better.
affects: | indicator-applet → indicator-session |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- Confirmation for logout-restart-shutdown is a loss of time for the user + Confirmation for logout-restart-shutdown is a loss of time for most + users |
Changed in ayatana-ubuntu: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in indicator-session: | |
status: | New → Opinion |
status: | Opinion → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in indicator-session (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Confirmed |
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When the user clicks on "Logout", or "Restart" or "Shutdown", a window pop-ups and requires the user to confirm his action. I believe this window is useless, anti-productive (loss of time) for most users.
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No. it is not. I myself have accidently pressed such buttons and personally know a lot of people that do so on a irregular basis. Thanks to the option our current session does not go through a abrupt abort and work does not get lost. But this is my opinion and real world experience. May not match with everyone.
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[Workaround : Alt-F2 enter "gconf-editor", Apps>indicator-
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Am OK with workaround for advanced users / special cases from gconf. For default users, confirmation dialog is absolutely required.