** Summary changed:
- intrepid uses the upstream session dialog
+ intrepid session dialog experience
** Description changed:
- Binary package hint: gnome-session
+ Intrepid has a new set of session dialogs, Log Out and Shut Down (with
+ Lock Screen as a separate menu item) that replace the previous Quit
+ dialog. These come from SuSE patches that are expected to be eventually
+ upstream.
- The new gnome-session is mostly a rewrital which means the ubuntu
- session changes need to be rewritten if we still want to use the same
- dialog. Upstream plans to merge the opensuse dialog meanwhile so we
- might want to consider using this one as an option
+ Log Out has:
+ Log Out
+ Switch User
+
+ Shut Down has:
+ Shut Down
+ Restart
+ Suspend
+ Hibernate
+
+ We also will now have Ted's fast-user-switch-applet in the top right by
+ default, providing quick access to the Switch User functionality as well
+ as the other options here.
+
+ There is a remaining decision:
+
+ Are two dialogs better than one? In previous Ubuntu releases, we only
+ ever had one "Quit" dialog that contained all of the available options.
+ This now gives us two, and for the first time (in Ubuntu) attempts to
+ establish a difference between "Log Out" and "Shut Down".
+
+ Switching between Users is very arguably completely covered by the new
+ applet, and Lock Screen is happy as its own menu item (it never fitted
+ in the list otherwise).
+
+ Thus should we merge the two dialogs back into one Quit dialog, that
+ would simply add the Log Out option?
+
+ Quit:
+ Log Out
+ Shut Down
+ Restart
+ Suspend
+ Hibernate
** Description changed:
Intrepid has a new set of session dialogs, Log Out and Shut Down (with
Lock Screen as a separate menu item) that replace the previous Quit
dialog. These come from SuSE patches that are expected to be eventually
upstream.
Log Out has:
Log Out
Switch User
Shut Down has:
Shut Down
Restart
Suspend
Hibernate
We also will now have Ted's fast-user-switch-applet in the top right by
default, providing quick access to the Switch User functionality as well
as the other options here.
There is a remaining decision:
Are two dialogs better than one? In previous Ubuntu releases, we only
ever had one "Quit" dialog that contained all of the available options.
This now gives us two, and for the first time (in Ubuntu) attempts to
establish a difference between "Log Out" and "Shut Down".
+ This notably causes a surprising experience when pressing the power
+ button, previously this showed all of the available options - now it
+ only shows the Log Out (!) options.
+
Switching between Users is very arguably completely covered by the new
applet, and Lock Screen is happy as its own menu item (it never fitted
in the list otherwise).
Thus should we merge the two dialogs back into one Quit dialog, that
would simply add the Log Out option?
Quit:
Log Out
Shut Down
Restart
Suspend
Hibernate
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intrepid session dialog experience
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