Martin Pitt wrote: > Right, I just don't see how to sanely do that "use that ----> button > over here" educationary UI in the current state of intrepid (or at > all, but that requires some UI expert). > Exactly, so the better option is to move it, and let people figure it out.
The current patch shows the power icon in the top right in any event. >> but not to have two, totally different, ways to do something. >> > > That's actually my very concern here. With the current panel we > currently have one way which *always* works (system menu). If we hide > that, we suddenly have two different ways to shut down the system, > one for people with fusa, one for people without. Since we can't > enforce fusa without rewriting the panel first [1], we still need to > have the system menu entries at least for upgrades. > No we don't. We only need the system menu entries if someone has removed fusa. We will place fusa correctly for everyone on upgrade, and only show a single set of menu entries. > [1] Side note: OMGponies! My poor panel is going to be abducted! > http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008/GUIHackfest/WindowManagementAndMore > Yes, we helped write that last week. > That's actually a very good example. If an user installed tbird and > upgrades to intrepid, he will continue to have tbird, while a fresh > intrepid installation comes with evo. I know that it doesn't fit this > bug to 100%, but it demonstrates that we need to take into account > user preferences for not doing things the way we intend to by default. > The user has upgraded the SYSTEM from 8.04 to 8.10. In the process, the SYSTEM has changed, and one of those changes is the location of the menu options to log out. You won't convince me that we need to leave old crap around when we upgrade ;-). Mark -- When FUSA applet has shutdown/logout items are duplicated in "System" menu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283278 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
