On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 04:28:48PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 13:37 +0100, Matt Zimmerman a écrit : > > I don't consider the redundant menu entries to be as much of a problem > > as > > having one of the most prominent buttons on the default desktop lose > > most of > > its functionality. > > Right, so let's summarize the discussion, I see 3 ways to go there: > > * use the stock upstream dialogs and the new user switch applet and do > users configurations changes on update: > > advantages: > - that works out of the box for new installation > - there is no upstream patching required > - some users like the upstream way to have different dialogs > > inconvenients: > - requires to migrate the configuration on upgrade in a non trivial way > (basically what scott described before) > - some users will likely not like the new switch user applet and would > like better to have a dialog listing all the session options
This seems like the most risky to me. > * change the logout upstream dialog to list all the options > > advantages: > - will not confuse users who like having one dialog listing everything > - doesn't require configuration changes on upgrade > > inconvenients: > - requires to apply patches to the upstream code > - makes the configuration, interfaces and layout ubuntu specific > - some users like the upstream way better > > > * add an extra dialog similar to the 2 upstream ones which lists all the > options ...and change the logout applet to use it (right?). > advantages: > - the gnome-panel layout is the upstream one and the applet will still > be listing all the available actions > - no configuration change required (or a limited one if you want to add > a new applet for this dialog, that would just be changed the object name > in the configuration and not the layout) > - there is no need to change the upstream code but rather to add some > new one which makes updates easier > > inconvenients: > - requires to write the new dialog, though if we want to something > similar to the upstream ones listing all the options that's trivial > - the new dialog and the user switching applet will somewhat be > redundant since they will list all the actions and should probably not > be both listed on upgrades (or the switch user applet should have go > back to only switching users) I can think of another option: * change the logout applet to display the shut down dialog instead of the log out dialog advantages: - no configuration changes required - should be a very small code change problems: - makes the applet name counter-intuitive - some people might use the log out option (but I think this is unusual on single-user systems), though we could add it to the shut down dialog (smaller change than modifying the log out dialog) -- - 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
