Ladislav Slezak wrote: > I think logout and reboot/shutdown actions should not be offered together. > IMO home > users on a desktop usually do shutdown at the end, reboot or logout just > sometimes > (at least this is my experience). On the other hand in web applications you > usually > use logout, reboot/shutdown is really unusual.
The other idea was to hide Shutdown and Restart under a combo box in the title bar: It could look something like this [Icon] [Titel] Connected to: localhost | User: root | [Logout |v] And Shutdown and Restart would only be accessible when selected. The cons to this approach were: * Is it obvious to the user? I think not. * We would still need something like a confirmation pop up in order to avoid unintended shut downs > Therefore I would not use the desktop approach and make these actions less > visible, > i.e. they don't need to be accessible at all pages (in the header). I would find it much more confusing, if the shut down possibility would be accessible only in some places. > Robert suggested adding buttons to the status part of the control center (to > the > right side). Thanks for the mock ups! Be honest, I find it hard to make a connection between status and shutdown. The other concern is that similar functionalities are separated: shutdown, restart and logout are all exit options but they are quite far away from each other. So therefore I would recommend to stick to the desktop-like approach. But let`s wait for other opinions and I hope that some user tests would bring in some clarification :-) BTW: Can anyone of you recommend a simple git-tutorial page for an absolute git-newbie like me? This would be perfect! Cu, Martin -- Martin Schmidkunz User Experience Specialist [email protected] +49 (0) 911 740 53-346 ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Novell, Inc. SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 Your Linux is ready http://www.novell.com/linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
