New icons for gnome-logout dialog

[Eric Feliksik]

Øivind Hoel wrote:
> Is it possible to get a text area to update itself when a button is
> hovered over in gtk?
> 
> I have an idea that I think would absolutely rock the logout dialog,
> but I'm not even sure it can be implemented, so I'll try some
> ascii-art to show what I'm talking about  (this will look rubbish in a
> non-monospace font):
> 
> /-------------------------------------------------------\
> |			|				|
> | [I] Log out		| Click this button if you want	|
> | (I) Switch user	| to log out of your session.	|
> | (I) Lock screen	| You will be greeted by the	|
> |-----------------------| GDM login screen once your	|
> | (I) Sleep		| session has ended.		|
> | (I) Hibernate		|				|
> | (I) Restart		|				|
> | (I) Shut down		|				|
> |			|				|
> \-------------------------------------------------------/
> 
> (I) is where the icon should be, and the right area should update with
> some informative description telling the user what will actually
> happen. Maybe the text accompanying the icon could be removed, though
> I'm not so sure about that.
> 

Although it results in a lot of text (something gnome generally tries to 
avoid), I find it an interesting idea.
I *really* think that SEVEN options will be *very* confusing for 
non-technical users. A lot of users on the list say it's a lot, and 
apart from the fact it's many to choose from, for a lot of people it's 
really unclear what all these things mean. The difference between "Log 
out" and "switch user" is not trivial, and a lot of people are not as 
experimental as we are.
The current ascii-mockup makes the explanation text really *big*, a more 
subtle thing is possible too: smaller and at the bottom (or as tooltip, 
but I'd dislike that).
Generally gnome's minimalistic interface is quite self-explanatory, but 
I feel the current dialog isn't.