Unity Dash can't understand "logout", "reboot", or "shutdown"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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unity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Xenial |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This bug proposes the additional surfacing of power-management and session actions directly within the Dash:
- Reboot ("restart" is another good alias for this)
- Shutdown (other intuitive aliases: "shut down", "turn off")
- logout (aliases: "log out", "log off" and "logoff")
- Suspend/hibernate
- Lock
- Switch User
Currently these user-initiated actions are presented via the Devices (cog/gear-
1. [Alt]+[F10] [Left] [Up/Down] [Enter]
2. [Alt] "Shutdown"/"Log out" [Up/Down] [Enter]
3. [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Del] [Enter] ("Log off" only)
4. [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[t] "sudo reboot" [Enter]
(Note that "Restart"/"Reboot" can not be accessed directly via 1-3).
These methods are less likely to be found by the user than surfacing these actions additionally within the Dash. This would help in cases where a mouse/pointer is no longer available, such as "mouse-cursor did not appear after logging in to the Unity Desktop"
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This would also assist with "ctrl-alt-delete doesn't provide a reboot option"
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It is proposed by surfacing these options in the Unity Dash, that finding the actions would be more intuitive, and would make the Dash feel more complete as the defacto first-point-of-call for user initiated actions.
Implementation possibilities:
1. Hard-code special-case actions into the Dash (requires Design review, code and ship acceptance)
2. Implement as Dash plugin (requires code and ship acceptance)
3. Install additional .desktop listing the Name, Icon and Aliases in /usr/share/
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity 7.2.3+14.
tags: | added: utopic vivid |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- Unity Dash can't understand "restart", "reboot", or "shutdown" + Unity Dash can't understand "logout", "reboot", or "shutdown" |
description: | updated |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
tags: | added: needs-design |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: dash |
description: | updated |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 7.3.1 → 7.3.2 |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 7.3.2 → 7.3.3 |
tags: | added: wily |
tags: | added: rls-w-incoming |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 7.3.3 → 7.4.0 |
tags: |
added: rls-x-incoming removed: rls-w-incoming |
tags: | added: unity-backlog |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.