Re: shutdown from gnome logout dialog

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:15:41AM +0200, Jarno Gassenbauer wrote:
> > > How about having gnome-session wait for GDM's response after hitting
> > > 'OK' and only continue after the response or a timeout?
> > 
> > Yep, this sounds reasonable. When the timeout is reached, it will
> > logout, but there is no way to ensure that GDM will effectively logout
> > or not, right ?
> > 
> 
> No, right. Not without interaction, be it the radio buttons or a
> second dialog to give you feedback. And since you should always check
> the radio buttons with your own eyes anyways...
> 
> > It would be nice if the timeout was configurable, as a gconf hidden option
> > only maybe. I guess it will only take longer time when you are on
> > non-local sessions, and in this case i doubt people will want to enable
> > this feature anyway.
> 
> For luck the communication between gnome-session and GDM has to be local
> (I assume you cannot open a UNIX domain socket on another machine).

Then it will usually be fast, so why not simply wait till you get the
response from GDM before proceeding. Should work fine.

Friendly,

Sven Luther