still, if somebody for administrative reasons, needs to shut down a computer, reasons ranging from planned power interruptions to office relocations, it still is nice being able to let somebody shut down the computer in an orderly fashion.
Hence, the problem was not that a shutdown option was presented when pressing the power button, the problem was that flicking the power switch could give somebody full access to the locked desktop. It may be that I grew up when power buttons actually had something to do with the power supply of the device at hand, but Ubuntu is for "ordinary people" and many such people still think that the reason for the power switch is switching the power in a similar way as their light switch is working. To cater for this conservative mindset, a good workaround would be skipping the questions about if logout etc and instead present a simple shutdown yes/no question. OK, that adds complexity compared to silently bring the machine to a halt, but it may still save some trouble when the button is pressed by accident. -- Pressing power button unlocks locked screensaver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/37350 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
