A new (nearly finished) logout dialog

[Mikael Eriksson]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 02:31:48PM -0200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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> On 8 Dec, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Manu Cornet wrote:
> >...
> >>---------------------
> >>  Sleep
> >>  Hibernate
> >>  Restart
> >>  Shut Down
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> >>  Lock Screen
> >>  Switch Account...
> >>  Log Out
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> >Do you think we should have so many items in the System menu ?
> 
> There would be 13 items altogether, which is a bit long, though not 
> awful. Three pie-in-the-sky ways of shortening the menu:
> 1.  moving "Help" and "About" to a separate "Help" menu (easy, but the
>     help isn't useful enough to warrant its own menu at the moment);
> 
> >This is the way Mac OS X does it, but it has much fewer items (doesn't 
> >have Hibernate,
> 
> 2.  merging "Sleep" and "Hibernate" into a single command like newer
>     versions of Mac OS X do, so "Sleep" suspends both to RAM and to
>     disk (difficult);
> 3.  merging "Preferences" and "Administration", once enough applets
>     have merged that such a combined menu would be sane (very
>     difficult).
> 

4.  Move Sleep, Hibernate, Restart and Shut Down to a Power menu.