[kde] [Bug 398662] New: Prompt to kill busy processes when they prevent system shutdown

[Mircea Kitsune]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398662

            Bug ID: 398662
           Summary: Prompt to kill busy processes when they prevent system
                    shutdown
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: sonichedgehog_hyperblast00 at yahoo.com
  Target Milestone: ---

What many of us love about KDE is how it stands up against the Windows >= 7
desktop, in terms of both quality and ease of use. I was recently reminded of a
Windows feature which none of the Linux desktop environments seem to have
implemented so far, and I believe KDE could consider adding it.

When shutting down the computer under recent versions of Windows, the OS will
attempt to close user applications before any system or desktop components. If
an application is taking too long to close down, it will tell you which
programs are holding back the system, then give you a button to forcefully kill
the process if you believe that won't cause you to lose work. Additionally you
can still abort the logout altogether at that stage. Here is a screen of what
this looks like:

https://i.imgur.com/25bMasT.png

While processes blocking a system shutdown isn't too common under Linux, there
have been cases where either an application or a job stopped the system from
shutting down for long periods of time. In such cases you often no longer have
the desktop to launch a tool like KSysGuard and investigate. As such a screen
like this might be useful: If a process refuses to shut down in say 5 seconds,
Plasma can give the user a screen in which they are informed of which process
is holding the shutdown back and given the option to kill it forcefully ("kill
-9 PID") if they believe this is safe. What is your opinion of such a feature?

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