Comment 28 for bug 315865

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In , rozwell (rozwell69) wrote :

(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > Confirmed in Ubuntu Jaunty, KDE 4.3.0.
> >
> > I completely agree with the suggestions thus far. However, I think it would
> > also help to put a timeout on the dialog. So if the user doesn't press any
> > buttons in, say 30 seconds or 1 minute, the system should assume that he went
> > to work/bed, and just continue with shutdown.
>
> I disagree.... Assuming the individual is tired or pressured to get to work,
> that individual would be prone to forget that he has something important
> running in a console and if not shutdown properly could screw things up.
>
> If a person does not specifically say go ahead and shutdown the console or
> click on a check box that says always shutdown / restart, the default behaviour
> should be to ask and stay on that dialogue box until answered.

That is true but..

This can have any sense if you work on a single machine with many users in a company or something but not regular users!

I vote to add that checkbox (yet another option in system settings) so we can choose whenever we (DON'T) want to see this annoying prompt.