[RFC] reorganizing logout & suspend stuff

[David Jarvie]

On Mon, June 1, 2009 12:37 am, Parker Coates wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> yeah, once more $SUBJECT ...
>>
>> while investigating some problems relating to logout & shutdown, i was
>> reminded of an interesting anomaly: ksmserver shows the suspend options
>> only when running under kdm (or another supported display manager),
>> which is technically completely unnecessary.
>>
>> the current "leave" menu splits actions into those which affect only the
>> current session and those which affect the entire system.
>> however, there is also a second dimension: actions which terminate the
>> current session and those which don't. organizing by that, one would get
>> a menu which looks like that:
>>
>> session ->
>>  leave
>>    logout
>>    reboot
>>    shutdown
>>  suspend
>>    switch user
>>    lock
>>    standby
>>    suspend to ram
>>    suspend to disk
>>
>> from ksmserver's perspective, only the first group is interesting.
>>
>> technicalities aside, it seems weird to have the non-terminating
>> suspend/standby-related options under the same button as the terminating
>> power-down, and it poses the question what to do when power-down is not
>> available as the top-level item.
>>
>> so ... let the brilliant ideas flow in.
>
> Hello Oswald,
>
> The following division seems most natural *to me*. The first group are
> multi-user related. The second group is dedicated only to suspending.
> The third group are involved shutting down the system/kernel, but I
> can't think of a particularly great label for it.
>
> Session
>   Lock
>   Logout
>   Switch user
>
> Suspend
>   Standby
>   Suspend to ram
>   Suspend to disk
>
> System (Stop? End? Quit? Power down?)
>   Reboot
>   Shutdown
>
> I like this division because the groupings are a bit more task
> oriented. Of course these are just my thoughts.

I prefer Parker's division. The original suggestion, while it has some
logic, isn't IMO an intuitive arrangement to the average user.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author & maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm