(Yet another) new logout dialog

[Tristan Wibberley]

Manu Cornet wrote:

> About the choice of designing a dialog with 6 or 7 options, I'm not
> the one who decides about this (I'm just trying to make a good layout
> with nice icons and text), but I do think it's a logical choice.
>
> * I believe the main purpose for this multi-option dialog is to let
> users have this main "top-right applet" flow to let them perform all
> "exit" action.

Then shouldn't this be a separate dialogue? I don't even *have* the top
right button - my panel stops about halfway across the screen and it
doesn't have the button even then. IMHO, this is a foolish consistency.

Personally, if you're just trying to give a quick way to manage your
session and computer power state, I think the dialogue that you get from
that button should just have log out, lock screen (named "Lock
Session"), hibernate (named "Power Off") or shutdown if hibernate is not
considered safe, and cancel. If they want to do anything else, there is
always System->Log Out, and System->Shut Down (or there was in GNOME
2.14). If it were done like that I think it would then make a lot of
sense to have such different actions on the dialogue. Maybe alter the
GNOME dialogues to give the same feel as the top-right exit icon - and
this dialogue *does* feel *really* nice.

> * "Log out" as the name of the menu entry is definitely misleading,
> and we're trying to find the best wording to replace it (suggestions
> welcome !).

See above re the foolish consistency. If it's such a labour to have it
all make sense the user probably won't fathom the chosen idiom.

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Tristan Wibberley