gnome-panel logout menu

[Karl Lattimer <karl qdh org uk>]

Hi all,

I'm just looking into building gnome-main-menu for fedora 9, I noticed
the lack of an actual exit function callable via the command line,
instead I can call gnome-session-save --kill to log out, but only log
out.

I looked through the gnome-panel source code to find out how the panel
calls the shutdown/hibernate etc... functions and find out that it is
built into the panel. It is also not available in the devel package as a
method callable by external applications.

It seems ludicrous to me that in order to build a replacement panel
menu, a completely new implementation of the logout screen must be
created. Is it not possible therefore to expose panel-logout in the
header files along side similar functions e.g. connect to server and
possibly other panel actions?

BR,
 K,