Comment 8 for bug 65010

Hi Jani,

no I am not running kiosk mode, I am running a small office.
But since I found this bug report while looking for something
else I figured that somebody might be interested in some information 8-)

Anyway, when running either gnome or kde, without any
special config, they both figure out that they are running
out of a thin client and refuses to provide options that could
close down the server for the whole network. With xubuntu
it is a different game, any user can shut down the server.
Since we do not have anybody evil (or stupid) enough to
shut down our server in a bad way around my place that
is not a problem for me, but still it irritates me a little bit
every time I log out, to have this abundance of options to
chose from when I only want to log out.

A slightly unrelated idea for a new feature is having shutdown
and reboot buttons that works on the client after you log out.
Now you will have to wait for the log out to be accomplished
before you can switch of your terminal.

So I did not write my previous message because of
personal problems but rather because that Jérôme
asked for some more input.

BTW, since xfce seems to be quite easy to configure,
I doubt it would be a great trouble for a manager of
a kiosk setup to disable the "evil" logout options.
Though I have not tried setting up this particular thing
so I may be wrong, at least there are settings in
the control panel ("sessions and startup") for this
purpose and there should be config files for the
same features as well.

Best,
r.r.