Comment 21 for bug 274146

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 12:30:46PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 09:04 +0100, Matt Zimmerman a écrit :
> > This is not about how the dialog looks, but the end user functionality
> > in
> > it. The current upstream "Shut Down" dialog offers everything we need
> > *except* the "Log Out" option, and I would imagine this is possible to
> > add.
> > Then the logout button could open that dialog.
> >
> > Is there a technical reason why that wouldn't work?
>
> Doing that would either require to change the upstream dialog to list
> all the option or to add a new dialog similar to the current upstream
> ones which list those. Changing the dialog would create a delta over
> upstream we will need to maintain

All of the functions we need are already there. It's just adding an entry
to the dialog. This is a tiny delta.

> , makes the two system menu entries irrevelant

No more so than they already are (due to the logout applet and f-u-s-a), or
were in previous versions of Ubuntu (due to the unified logout dialog).

> and makes some user unhappy who like the upstream way better

How so? They can still use the menu entries.

> (we had a gconf key in hardy to use the upstream dialog). Creating a
> similar dialog which lists all the option bring back to the
> configuration migration issue since that would be a new object and that
> requires to update the user configuration on upgrade, the change would
> be easier though since we would just have to change the object naming
> and not the layout for example. Users who don't have an user switching
> applet would probably expect this action to be in the dialog too though

There is no need for a new object; users upgrading from Hardy or early
Intrepid will already have the logout button at the upper right.

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 - mdz