On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi Kirk, > I think you have it just about right as far as I'm concerned. > > a) I don't want to force anyone outside of my responsibility to have > to do anything differently than they do today. I understand why the > shut down command exists in the System menu and why many or even most > people would want it there.
I was going to suggest that tools such as Pesselus might be able to help "lockdown" features and help hide buttons such as shutdown. Even then it probably shouldn't hide the shutdown option in GDM. Thinking about it further I realised that when misguided adminstrators tried to prevent users from shutting down do and I ended up with a computer that needed to be forcibly shutdown I either used the power buttons on the box or unplugged the computer at the wall. Realistically a determined user cannot be prevented from shutting down the computer so the best thing to do is definately improve the warnings as previously suggested, and also make it so that users are more likely to choose logoff than shutdown (providing shutdown only in GDM seems like the appropriate way to achieve that in your context). _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
