Re: Ubuntu logout dialog patch in Debian [Discuss]

[Sebastian Heinlein <sebi@glatzor.de>]

Am Montag, den 25.06.2007, 09:22 +0200 schrieb Loïc Minier:

>  My opinion on the patch is that the dialog offers more options than in
>  the stock dialog, and these are useful.  I find it more convenient to
>  keybind to this dialog to decide what I want to do than to keybind the
>  invidiual actions.  I also find it easier to click on the launcher I
>  have for "Close session" and then hit huge icons than to go through the
>  tiny menu of gnome-power-manager (plus GPM isn't always displayed).
>
>  In short, I don't have any strong opinion on the non-HIG-ness of this
>  dialog, but I certainly wish the functionality would be available.  Of
>  course, this is an upstream issue and has nothing Debian or Ubuntu
>  specific.

I often realize myself searching for the wished option in the Ubuntu dialog.
So it pop ups fast but it takes some time for me to locate the right action.

As you mentioned, the greatest benefit of the Ubuntu solution is having
a very prominent way to access the dialog: a launcher is located in the
right top corner. So this would be a trade off with the window switcher
that is currently located there. I use this button more times during a
session than the quit button in Ubuntu.

Ideally the suspend action should be tiggered by the lid close event, so
you would not need such an option in most cases. But who can trust his
or her laptop that it always suspends correctly :)

Cheers,

Sebastian