Lock/logout interactions

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 10 March 2008, Michael Rudolph wrote:
> It might be hard for software engineers to see, but the absolutely best
> solution to place these features is outside the "software" and on the
> hardware.

unfortunately we don't control the hardware.
nor do we control the state of people's expectations.

if we were starting from scratch here (with people's expectations) and were 
shipping our own hardware, i'd go along with you.

sadly, the power buttons on many systems are not in easy reach (my desktop is 
waaaaay under the desktop, for instance; this is quite common in 
corporate/school envs) and many people are not comfortable with just hitting 
the power button on their machine without some software interaction ("will i 
lose any data?!")

what i would suggest is that it might be nice to offer a (non-(main-)gui) 
mechanism to define which entries do appear in the menu, such that those who 
are shipping their own hardware might have a chance at a decent system.

wanna put together a patch? =)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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