Hi, I didn't know where to report this so I signed up for this list. If there is a better place please let me know.
We are a family of Gnome users in California. All our machines are all Gentoo based which requires me to spend more time running update processes in the background on everyone's computers. Naturally this will mean that sometimes users are logged onto their machines while I'm doing updates over ssh. On my son's machine he sometimes wants to reboot so that he can play games in Windows. A few days ago he did this while I was doing updates in the background. Apparently his timing was perfectly bad and ha manged to reboot while new libraries were being installed. When he attempted later to get back into Linux we found that the machine booted but didn't get as far as gdm. No one could log in and the machine was essentially useless. To fix the machine without a lot of time spent on my part I tried emerging gdm. That didn't work. I then tried emerging all of Gnome which also didn't work. I then rebuilt the machine completely using emerge -e world and gdm returned. I feel the usability issue here is that Gnome doesn't seem to let me remove the Shut Down... option from the System menu. If it does I haven't discovered documentation yet telling me how to do this. If there is documentation could someone point me at it? Note that I do not want to remove the Log Out option. We all share machines here and logging out when you are done using a machine is a user decision. Shutting the machine down is not a user decision. I found an option to disallow logout but that's not appropriate for this problem. I would like to see an option, not a requirement, to make Shut Down either a root only operation or at least something that is password protected. On user machines I would personally remove it from their System menu. Thanks for having this list and giving me a place to report this issue. Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
