logout-icon (was: friendly comment: design problem about logout)

[Dana Olson]

On 2/24/06, George Farris <farrisg at cc.mala.bc.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-24-02 at 14:54 -0700, Ben Aldrich wrote:
> > I have to agree that seems to be a waste of space on the panel.
>
> Yes this really doesn't need to be there.  I don't think it looks good.
> Users are quite capable of using the menus.


I don't know man... I mean, I can get Ubuntu installed on my system
using a text-based installer, but I haven't yet figured out how to get
those menus to drop down.. Thank goodness for having the icon on the
panel!

I remember trying the LiveCD a while back and there was no logout
button on the panel, so I just powered off my PC.

...

:) I don't even reboot my PCs unless I install a new kernel. Needless
to say, the icon on the panel is useless for me. I don't think it's a
good option to remove it from the dropdown menu. Anyone installing and
using Ubuntu has likely used Windows, so they are used to having to go
into a menu to logout, and that's the first place they will look, I'm
sure. Yes, there is that CTRL+ALT+DEL dialog in Win2K that I liked,
but whatever.

Seriously, you are right; users need to be given more credit than
"clicking a menu is too hard and confusing."

Dana