ubuntu-desktop Digest, Vol 10, Issue 2

[Tristan Wibberley]

Dan Shufelt wrote:
> By the way, does anyone else think that the switch users dialog needs to
> be re-worded?

Yes
> Currently when attempting to return to a previous user
> session it says;
> “You are already logged in.  You can log in anyway, return to your
> previous login session, or abort this login
> [Log in Anyway]  [Return to previous login]  [Abort login]”
> 
> I would like to suggest changing the wording/buttons to something along
> the lines of;
> “You are currently logged in, to log out please login then choose
> System- Log Out- Log Out then click the OK button.
> [Return to Previous Session] [Cancel]”


IMHO, I think it should be:

You have a session running already, you can log in to it or you can
start an extra session (experts only):

                             [Cancel] [Extra Session] [Log In]

In particular the buttons are the wrong way round in the current
dialogue. I think the Extra Session button should offer the session
selection dialogue before finally starting a new session, as a user
would often want to select something other than GNOME if they already
have GNOME logged in. And it is annoying to have to cancel, then choose
the session, then type your name again.

> Or better yet, since the user already had to enter their user name and
> password to get to this point remove the redundancy altogether and just
> return them to their previous session.

But then how do they select to start an extra session? While "normal"
users won't ever want to (for sufficiently elitist values of "normal"),
their local guru's will want to when they get a call about something
gone screwy. The local guru will probably want it to be a primary option
on their own machine - so keeping it, but choosing more leading names,
solves both use cases.

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Tristan Wibberley