Re: [Usability] logging out from keyboard / logout UX

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 25 Sep 2009, at 18:05, Marius Andreiana wrote:

> Trying to log out from the default keyboard shortcut, but it's not  
> possible :)
> See http://tinypic.com/r/29gbvc/4
> Besides the Log out dialog not having a Log out button

That's because that's not the Log Out dialog, it's the Shut Down  
dialog.  The Keyboard Shortcuts preferences window appears to be  
binding a shortcut to the wrong function. If that hasn't been fixed in  
2.28.0, please file a bug.

> I don't know what Cancel does in the middle of the other choices.

I guess they're just following this part of the HIG:
<http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/windows-alert.html.en#alert-button-order 
>

which shows that the affirmative button ("Shut Down" in this case,  
because it's the Shut Down dialog") should go to the right of the  
Cancel button, and alternative actions should go to the left.

In this case, however, that doesn't really work very well.

> See also the Win 7 ctrl+alt+del dialog
> http://tinypic.com/r/w7cvn8/4
> their UX is quite good this time. Could it be used as an inspiration?

We've certainly experimented with that sort of thing before, but I  
don't recall off-hand why they've never made it into the stable release.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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