Don't suppress the shutdown menu on LTSP clients

Bug #1673486 reported by Alkis Georgopoulos
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Bug Description

I've already reported this upstream, but I'd like to SRU it to 16.04 after it's fixed upstream.

This (https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-panel/commit/8c25e1bdd328a8712735c0b00cf4aede7993da1d) commit, 9 years ago, aimed at hiding the shutdown menu on LTSP clients, because they were remote sessions to the LTSP server, and we didn't want remote users to shut down the server by accident.

Nowadays it prevents LTSP fat clients from shutting down. Fat clients is the recommended LTSP setup, and they run the session locally on the client, so having a shutdown button there is required.
As for thin clients, preventing server shutdown is taken care of by policykit, there's no need to check for an environment variable in the MATE code (btw I'm an LTSP developer).

So, I'd like to ask you to please revert commit 8c25e1b.

[Test Case]
Log in to an LTSP client running Ubuntu MATE.
Enable the Redmond menu, where the shutdown menu should be shown.
Verify that the shutdown menu is missing, and that it's displayed when the commit is reverted.

Changed in mate-panel (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package mate-panel - 1.18.1-0ubuntu1

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mate-panel (1.18.1-0ubuntu1) zesty; urgency=medium

  * New upstream maintenance release. (LP: #1673486)
  * debian/patches:
    + Drop 1000_allow_re-registration.diff. Applied upstream.

 -- Martin Wimpress <email address hidden> Wed, 05 Apr 2017 04:21:12 +0100

Changed in mate-panel (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in mate-panel (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: New → Won't Fix
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