I would not like to see shutdown option in the menu when logged in via
gdm, and not have the shutdown option when logged in via dtlogin.

Using different login managers, should not affect the items in the
default menu.

Bob


On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 10:07 -0500, Bob Doolittle wrote:
> If the gdm.conf file had an "#include" mechanism, like dtlogin does for
> Xresources, SRSS could provide their own gdm.conf that turns off the
> option and then includes the system/user gdm.conf, where the user could
> override it if so desired.
> 
> -Bob
> 
> Joerg Barfurth wrote:
> 
> > Hi Brian,
> >
> > Brian Cameron wrote:
> >
> >>> Is it possible to have it appear in the GDM and logout screens, but 
> >>> not on the Launch menu?  I'm not convinced we'd want Reboot (or 
> >>> Shutdown, Sleep, or Suspend) cluttering the Launch menu itself 
> >>> (although it should probably stay in the menu applet's "Desktop" 
> >>> menu for those who use that), but I'd agree it's certainly handy to 
> >>> have all those options in the login screen and the logout dialog, 
> >>> where permissions allow.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >> Only "Log out <username>..." and "Shut Down..." appear (in that order)
> >> under "Lock Screen".  Suspend does not appear.
> >>
> >> No, there is currently no way to make these options appear in GDM only.
> >> If you turn them on in GDM, they also appear in the Launch menu.  If
> >> we feel strongly about this, we could probably work with the panel
> >> maintainer to submit a patch that would make this more configurable.
> >>
> >> If it is okay to just add this to the spec, then that would obviously
> >> be the easiest choice, and we can turn it on by default.  Then, people
> >> like the SunRay team can turn off this feature along with the rest
> >> of the SRSS configuration/installation.
> >>
> >
> > I'm not sure that is the right thing for SRSS to do. Normally SRSS 
> > install doesn't silently change settings all over the system. And it 
> > really shouldn't do so if this could clobber existing user settings.
> >
> > Additionally it may not be the right thing to do globally. If the 
> > system has a graphical console the console use may want to retain 
> > these items. On the other hand there are more ways to set up a 
> > multi-user system than  SRSS. And there are more twists: In a zone 
> > sleep and suspend make no sense, shutdonw is farfetched, but reboot 
> > might make sense.
> >
> > Calum's comment has the key phrase: the best option would be to show 
> > these items only if the user has the necessary permission to do this 
> > things. (There should still be the option to switch off altogether.)
> >
> > -- J??rg
> >
> >
> 
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