On Wed, 2006-18-01 at 07:09 +0100, Manu Cornet wrote: > > Why? Is there any reason for this other than "Microsoft Windows does > > it"? (I've never understood why Windows does it.)
To me it makes no sense to have a "are you sure you want to logout?" just sitting around. If you have changed your mind about logging out then you probably want to close it. Since you're closing the desktop, it should be desktop-modal in the same way that most "are you sure you want to quit?" dialogs are application-modal. This is just consistency. Presume that a user does have some reason to want to keep the dialog around while interacting with the computer. By having the ability to to do so you turn power off/reboot into a one click action (on a very big button, no less). Presumably, some of the idea of a logout dialog is to confirm that the user didn't just accidentally click. > 1. Make two separate entries in the System menu. > 2. Let the power management dialog appear when the Power button is > pressed. Upstream GNOME is doing fantastic design work here. There is an open bug about this -- http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92277 I just skimmed the thread (hey, it's long!) but I looked at all the pictures :) I think their dialog designs are excellent. They're no more than they need to be and they have a consistent look/feel with the rest of the desktop. The idea of having a 'Logout' submenu scares the heck out of me, but I think having 'Reboot' and 'Logout' as separate top-level items on the main menu would be perfect. I don't want to discredit your work because it looks very nice; the problem is that it doesn't fit in with the rest of the desktop. So what I'm saying -- maybe we should follow upstream on this aspect of the design? Just my 2ยข. Cheers.
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