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The (broken) rationale is you can just bash the power button and walk away. Useful if you have a large lab of machines or something. In practice apps can then block logout afterwards. (And probably it's there because windows at the time worked like this..) REPOSITORY R120 Plasma Workspace REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D27077 To: ngraham, #vdg, #plasma Cc: cfeck, davidedmundson, plasma-devel, Orage, LeGast00n, The-Feren-OS-Dev, jraleigh, zachus, fbampaloukas, GB_2, ragreen, ZrenBot, ngraham, alexeymin, himcesjf, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, ahiemstra, mart