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On 31 Jan, 2006, at 12:43 AM, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
These can be treated the same way as Windows does, with a "This
program is not responding" alert <http://www.jvwinc.com/end-now.gif>,
or the same way OS X does, with an "<appname> cancelled shutdown"
alert.
Yes, but this is a feature of Windows that makes people cringe. It
gives people a feeling that the app or system is broken.
That's partly because the Windows alert is a awkwardly designed, but
mostly because the app *is* broken. :-) Until this detail of the Ubuntu
desktop is dragged into the 1990s, logging out will perform mass
dataloss instead, which is rather impolite.
I would suggest a solution with a dialogue without a counter but where
you do have to click confirm to activate to avoid data loss. The data
protection can be catered for by calling the screen locking/screen
saver app with a time parameter that is shorter than the user's
default. 60 or 90 seconds is probably fine.
That seems like a reasonable solution to the security aspect.
It may be necessary to modify the screen locking program to accept a
parameter to override the default time, but if so, that would mean
modifying just one app instead of the hundreds that would need to save
data properly.
...
No, the apps need to be fixed anyway. If you've migrated from a
better-behaved OS (such as Windows 3.0 or later), you'll expect apps to
not throw away your data even when you've confirmed that you want to
log out. This won't be a quick problem to fix, but it still needs to be
fixed.
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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