Re: gnome-session dialog on crack

[Gediminas Paulauskas <menesis delfi lt>]

Add to this list Standby, and Lock Screen, and you have 5 menu items in 
the Actions (or GNOME) menu. You *have* to use menus to get to any of 
these actions.

It would be more convenient to press Ctrl+Alt+Del and get a dialog with 
six buttons:

[Lock Screen]   [Log Out]    [Suspend]
[Reboot]        [Shut Down]  [Cancel]

This is how this works in Windows 2000, or IceWM. IceWM has a dialog 
very similar to this one, except it has "Restart IceWM" instead of 
Suspend. Windows 2000 really has a different dialog:

[Lock Computer]      [Log Off...]    [Shut Down...]
[Change Password...] [Task Manager]  [Cancel]

Pressing Shut Down... button gives you another dialog, where you select 
from combobox (what an inconvenient way to hide options in a dialog 
which is the only on screen!) one of Log Off, Shut down, Restart, 
Suspend options, and then press OK.

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OK, so you want to say me that Lock screen and Suspend are 
non-destructive actions and need not a confirmation dialog. So it may be 
not a very good idea to mix all them in one dialog.

I liked Rui's idea most of all, it looks reasonable.

I would like the following workflow:


Actions
   Lock Screen
   Suspend
   Exit
   ___________
   etc...

Choosing Exit pops up a dialog:

   {Warning}  Exit will close all running programs.
              Are you sure you want to leave desktop?

   [_Shut Down] [_Reboot]      [_Cancel] [[_Log Out]]


Pressing any button does not need confirmation. Because... this *is* 
confirmation dialog, and has a warning saying what will happen.


Dave Bordoley wrote:
> Uggh that would be ugly. I like the idea of just dividing the dialog up
> into separate logout, shutdown and reboot dialogs.
>
> dave
>
> On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 09:55, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
>
>
> > A probably better solution would be to have 4 buttons:
> >
> >                        MESSAGE
> >
> > [ Shutdown ] [ Reboot ]        [ Cancel ] [[ Logout ]]
> >
> > Note the space between the 2 dangerous buttons...
> >
> > Suddenly, a potentially 2 click dialog became a one click dialog :)


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Gediminas