dtlogin will never provide this option. But gdm came from (and is most often used in) a different culture - one of single-user systems. gdm is also most often used in environments where dtlogin is unavailable, so the comparison is relatively moot.
As long as it is configurable, this is really only a question of defaults. Multi-user systems typically will not want this option. For single-user systems I suspect they will typically want this option. In the thin client multi-user world this option will *definitely* be undesirable, which I why I proposed a way that Sun Ray software can influence the system defaults in as non-intrusive a way as possible, without removing the admin's ability to customize options as desired. -Bob Robert Kinsella - Sun Microsystems Ireland - Software Engineer wrote: >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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>desktop-discuss mailing list >>desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> >> > > >
