On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 12:30:46PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 09:04 +0100, Matt Zimmerman a écrit : > > This is not about how the dialog looks, but the end user functionality > > in > > it. The current upstream "Shut Down" dialog offers everything we need > > *except* the "Log Out" option, and I would imagine this is possible to > > add. > > Then the logout button could open that dialog. > > > > Is there a technical reason why that wouldn't work? > > Doing that would either require to change the upstream dialog to list > all the option or to add a new dialog similar to the current upstream > ones which list those. Changing the dialog would create a delta over > upstream we will need to maintain
All of the functions we need are already there. It's just adding an entry to the dialog. This is a tiny delta. > , makes the two system menu entries irrevelant No more so than they already are (due to the logout applet and f-u-s-a), or were in previous versions of Ubuntu (due to the unified logout dialog). > and makes some user unhappy who like the upstream way better How so? They can still use the menu entries. > (we had a gconf key in hardy to use the upstream dialog). Creating a > similar dialog which lists all the option bring back to the > configuration migration issue since that would be a new object and that > requires to update the user configuration on upgrade, the change would > be easier though since we would just have to change the object naming > and not the layout for example. Users who don't have an user switching > applet would probably expect this action to be in the dialog too though There is no need for a new object; users upgrading from Hardy or early Intrepid will already have the logout button at the upper right. -- - mdz -- Has not yet replaced the existing log out applet https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274146 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
