KDE 4.x and the "Leave" menu

[Terence Simpson]

claydoh wrote:
> On Friday 12 September 2008 11:43:42 pm John-Scott Atlakson wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm just a lurker on the list as a bleeding edge end-user.
>>
>> As a bleeding edge user, I gave the 8.04 re-spin with KDE 4.0 a try, but
>> there were too many issues at the time, so I went back to 3.5.x and have
>> been holding out for Intrepid and the hopefully more polished/finished KDE
>> 4.1.x.
>>
>> One simple annoyance I had hoped to see eliminated is that when you click
>> on the Leave menu, you choose between Logout, Restart, Shutdown etc. But
>> clicking on any of these options just brings up another dialog providing
>> the exact same options. I thought with the 8.04 respin that I had just
>> goofed stuff up and that KDE 3.5 and 4.x were just talking at cross
>> purposes but I see this behavior in a clean install of the most recent
>> Intrepid Alpha 4.
>>
>> Can the secondary menu be eliminated easily, or is this more of an upstream
>> issue? It seems a shame after all the UI improvements to have this
>> completely redundant step boogering up the interface.
>>     
>
> That is configurable in System Settings in the Session Management area.
> Fixing this is on the devs' todo list
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu/Todo it just hasn't been done yet.
>
>   
It's not as as easy to fix as you think, if you disable it globally then 
those that use the Application Launcher Menu (rather than kickoff) can't 
logout (or shutdown/restart).
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase-workspace/+bug/187450

Terence Simpson