[Bug 33002] Re: logout dialog UI objections

[blaksaga]

After having read through this bug's comments, here are my two cents.

1) The "lock screen" item should not be treated differently than suspend/hibernate.  They are all options that are a) potentially timer-controlled and automatic and b) have no bearing on the current gnome session other than to pause it.
2) Why not, rather than using a dialog, just incorporate a submenu into the System menu to handle the different shutdown/logout options?  It would be simpler and easier to navigate.  Plus it would be consistent with preferences and administration menus that do not use dialogs. (See proposal below)
3) Separating the dialog (or menus) into "Pause Session" (or some other intuitive name) and "End Session" (or Shut Down etc) would be great.  I have no idea why things like sleep and shutdown are in the same dialog as their functionality is of a very different nature.

Here is my proposal for a menu-based version of the dialog:

System
**Session (User)
****Lock Screen
****Switch User
****Log Out
**Pause (Power Saving)
****Sleep
****Hibernate
**Quit (Shut Down)
****Reboot
****Power Off

Note: Lock Screen could also go in the Pause submenu, however, locking
the screen is sort of a semi-logout which requires a password so I
placed it in Session/User.

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logout dialog UI objections
https://launchpad.net/bugs/33002