Comment 31 for bug 274146

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: Desktop items

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 06:09:58PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 16:57 +0100, Matt Zimmerman a écrit :
> > On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 04:28:48PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
>
> > > * add an extra dialog similar to the 2 upstream ones which lists all the
> > > options
> >
> > ...and change the logout applet to use it (right?).
>
> no, since we would be changing the logout dialog (the one the button is
> opening right now) there is no applet change to do, the applet is only
> showing this dialog

Maybe I'm confused. Above, it says "add an extra dialog" (in addition to
the other two). Unless the applet is changed, it will still use the log out
dialog.

>
> > * change the logout applet to display the shut down dialog instead of the
> > log out dialog
>
> right, we could do that too, it would still not list some actions though
>
> > - some people might use the log out option (but I think this is unusual on
> > single-user systems), though we could add it to the shut down dialog
> > (smaller change than modifying the log out dialog)
>
> if we do that we are back at duplication between the dialogs

What is the issue with duplicating one option between the two dialogs?

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 - mdz