Re: shutdown from gnome logout dialog

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

On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 07:41:58PM -0400, James A Morrison wrote:
> 
>    Sure, it's a good feature to have in a debian system, very useful and
>    all. But the way I see it, this could lead to debian packages becoming
>    developers playground, with maintainers (and others) adding feature of
>    the week randomly into unstable packages, just because they find it
>    useful.
> 
>  Too late, this already happens with a lot of packages :)  If a hack isn't
> good enough for upstream, but it's nice, it's good enough for debian.
> 
>    IMHO, debian is more about packaging than about coding per se. Such a
>    feature should go upstream. Now, it may be decided that proper shutdown
>    at logout is essential for debian to have. But it should stay relatively
>    exceptional.
> 
>  Exceptional like having a Documents button added to the file selector? (I've
> grown used to the buttons now.)

But a /tmp button would have been much more usefull.

Friendly,

Sven Luther