On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 15:35 +0000, CarlosRuiz_globalqss wrote: > Although this can be considered an openoffice bug - I think there is a > problem also in the gnome-session manager as it's not informing the user > about the program causing the problem - in my case the program silently > fail, proper behavior must be to warn user about the program causing the > problem. > > Also I wonder if the shutdown in gnome-session is too weak (compared with > shutdown for example). > Which signal is trying to send to the programs to shutdown? How much timeout > is allowed before killing it? > I think shutdown from gnome-session must behave similar to shutdown from > system. Am I wrong? [Sorry if I've missed some previous discussion about > this] > > I have the feeling that ubuntu is the linux distro more focused on > usability and best user experience - so these kind of things must be > sensitive, IMHO an underdeveloped program (any) must not stop a shutdown > raised by user. > > Regards, > > Carlos Ruiz > It isn't a bug in gnome-session, and it is doing the right thing here. gnome-session already has a mechanism for informing users about applications that are blocking logout etc, but openoffice is specifically telling gnome-session that it is going to interact with the user (InteractRequest), and then immediately tells gnome-session that the user cancelled the logout. As far as gnome-session is concerned, openoffice put a dialog in front of the user and the user chose to not log out.
-- [ooo-build] OOo QuickStarter: unable to shutdown / reboot / logout when quickstarter is active https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562027 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
