Lock/logout interactions

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 10 March 2008, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
> This is just a crazy thought, but why are the Logout/Quit options in
> Kickoff anyway?  Could we put the options somewhere else (such as
> integrated in to the Desktop or taskbar by default)?
>
> It would require some learning on the user's part, but I think it is worth
> discussing for a moment or two on why we would or wouldnt want to do this.

i actually use the logout applet instead of kickoff entries, one problem is 
that the switch user option is not available on that applet (and putting 
three icons in it would become a little bit busy)
iirc some eons ago kde (2? or still in 3?) had a logout applet in kicker by 
default, don't know the reasons it was removed (maybe i'm totally wrong here 
i rarely see the defaults :D)

Cheers,
Marco Martin

> On Friday 07 March 2008 16:30:30 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Friday 07 March 2008, Will Stephenson wrote:
> > > 1) Make the Kickoff leave action_s_ all lead to a ksmserver countdown
> > > dialog which only offers the previously chosen action, do it now, or
> > > cancel.
> >
> > absolutely.
> >
> > > 2) Disambiguate logout so
> > > "Log out": end session, return to display manager
> > > "Leave": offer choice of ways to leave
> >
> > yes.
> >
> > > Possibly change "Log out" to "End session" or "Sign out"
> >
> > this probably comes down to which terminology one our users are most
> > familiar with. i really don't know, but "Log out" Is all over the web
> > these days so i'd bet that's the most commonly understood one.
> >
> > as for the issue of having to confirm after kickoff, i think you're
> > absolutely right that the one extra click is very much worth the safety.
> >
> > as for having "reboot" in kickoff, i think it's a bit overkill as well. i
> > honestly don't see why Reboot isn't in the Shutdown button's menu in the
> > ksmserver dialog either (it probably just mimicked what we had before?
> >
> > this would bring the ksmserver dialog down to just 2 options, with one of
> > them being expandable (shutdown button)