Re: Splitting logout options

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

arvind <arvind samptur wipro com> writes:

> In the  Gnome2 panel, under Actions menu, we have Logout
> option which pops up a dialog with logout, reboot and shutdown
> options.
> 
> As part of bug #70710,  those 3 options should be moved under
> Actions menu itself. The call, the client(panel) makes to the session
> manager is through SmcRequestSaveYourself. We need to pass the
> type of action selected i.e logout or reboot or shutdown to the session
> manager.  Currenlty we cannot pass the selected action type  with
> SmcRequestYourself.
> 
> Any suggestions to pass this information to Session Manager would
> be of great help.
> 
> Please Refer: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70710x

Well, the right way to do this is to simply to copy the current 
dialog and make two versions:
 
 - One that only gives you the option to logout
 - One that only gives you the option to reboot or shutdown.

I actually think that this is a fairly bad idea UI-wise because it clutters
the root menu, and makes it harder to get to the items above it. I can't
really see the advantages of having separate items, unless we think people
aren't going to figure out that to turn off your computer you have to
first log out.

(It also obscures the fact that you are logging and then then rebooting or 
turning off the computer and all the normal logout stuff takes place.)

Regarsd,
                                        Owen