Last choice of shutdown option is not remembered

[Francisco Borges]

Binary package hint: kdebase

This is in a way a KDE duplicate for Gnome bug "#19430 hibernate option not stored when selected".

On my laptop I (almost) always chose to Hibernate. But I have two problems here:

1. KDE will **not** remember which option I have used the last time;
(which would be the desirable feature IMHO)

2. System Settings -> Session Manager does not even allow me to manually set the hibernate option
as the default "shutdown option".

Cheers,

[Marco Maini (maini10)]

Thanks for this report. These are two desirable features for Kubuntu, I can confirm this bug, but I don't know if developers can fix this in the next version since KDE 3 development is ended and these problems usually were managed by upstream developers.

[Snoopy-3 (snoopy-3)]

Version: 4.0.1 (using KDE 4.0.1)
Installed from: SuSE RPMs
OS: Linux

Now, the system offers only, that I choose every time the same.
But there is no point to set for: Choose the choice from the last logout.
In this case, the last action (shutdown, logout or restart) will be stored and given as standard for the next "shutdown" and so on. I think, Windows XP has the same feature included (not 100% shure ;-) because I have no Windows to test now).

[Francisco Borges (francisco-borges)]

The exact same thing happens with kde4.

[FiNeX (finex)]

Changed product.

Anyway. You suggest to add another action for "use the last action".
So we have:
(session)
-logout
-lock
-switch user
(system)
-shutdown
-restart
And the suggested:
- * use the last action *

Did I understand correctly?

[Snoopy-3 (snoopy-3)]

It's more for the settings, then to show it on the screen. I think, with setting this, if the user choose logout, the last choice will be highlighted.

If the last choice was shutdown -> now shotdown is highlighted.
If the last choice was reboot -> now reboot is taken.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

In Intrepid the -kde4 suffixes are dropped on the kde4 packages.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Needs to be forwarded upstream to bugs.kde.org.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Just to be clear, where do you expect this setting to be saved?
From the login screen? From KMenu?

[Francisco Borges (francisco-borges)]

USE CASE:

When i use my laptop, I just hit Ctrl-Alt-Del, which gives me this
nice window with

==========================
Log out | Hibernate | Suspend

  Restart | Shutdown | Cancel
==========================

I always use "Hibernate", but KDE will *never* remember this, nor
allow me to set this as a default.

PROBLEM 1:
If the user never set a default option in the "session manager". KDE
should default to the last option used.

In other words: The user clearly shows it preference towards an
option, and the system is not smart enough to use this information.
Bad usability.

[...]

WHERE TO DEAL WITH IT (I.E. SAVE IT):

I expect this to be saved in the "Session Manager" settings, where BTW
these settings are right now saved in a **incomplete** form (as I had
mentioned in my bug submission).

Two ways to find the "Session Manager" settings:

1. Konqueror -> hit F9 -> Go to "Settings" -> "KDE Components" ->
"Session Manager". You should find the settings for "Default Shutdown
Option".

2. System Settings ->(Advanced tab) "Session Manager"-> "Default
Shutdown Option"

The problems here are:

PROBLEM 1:
Although there are 5 options in the pop-up I get from Ctrl-Alt-Del
(logout, hibernate, suspend, turn-off, restart).

There are only 3 available settings in the "Default Shutdown Option"
(logout, turn-off,restart).

PROBLEM 2:
We also lack an option (which should be the default), which is
"remember last choice".

--
Francisco

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Hello there,

Kubuntu currently does not have the manpower necessary to implement this feature as a distribution, so we are closing this report. Worry not, though, because your wish item is still being tracked by KDE at http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158294 . Once KDE implements this feature, we will include it in the Kubuntu release which contains the KDE version the feature was implemented in.

Thanks for understanding, and have a nice day.

[Nate-b (nate-b)]

No longer relevant.