User Switcher, Shutdown Options, IM Status

[Danny Piccirillo]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 20:44 -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Przemysław Kulczycki
> > <przemekkulczycki at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         Danny Piccirillo pisze:
> >
> >         > I'm not sure if this is the right place to bring this up or
> >         if there's
> >         > already an existing thread about it, but i don't see why all
> >         the shutdown
> >         > options are now separated from the logout options and in the
> >         users switcher
> >         > along with IM status changer even though the IM client
> >         already has it's own
> >         > which is displayed in addition when it's running anyways.
> >
> >
> >         Yes, I also find it annoying. What's the rationale for such a
> >         change?
> >
> >
> >         --
> >         ## Przemysław Kulczycki <<>> Azrael Nightwalker ##
> >         # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a #
> >         ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/<http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/%7Eazrael/>###
> >
> >
> > Does anybody know?
>
> I think the plan is for the FUSA to replace the Pidgin tray icon and the
> logout button, but I don't know for sure.  Right now it's in transition.
> Might also be so that the battery icon's suspend/hibernate functionality
> can be removed (so unprivileged users can't suspend the system from it).
> Again, just speculating.  The only thing that really bugs me about it is
> that power-related options aren't shown (only logout/switch user) when
> you hit the power button and it's set on "ask me," but there are bugs
> about that filed already.


It does it to empathy as well as pidgin. What is someone for some reason
decided to use empathy for jabber and pidgin for aim and wanted to set the
statuses independently of one another. Wouldn't this thing make that a
problem?

> What is going on? Have you seen the new default wallpaper and login
> > for intrepid? It's hideous!
>
> Which is default now?  New Wave?  That seems to be an extremely popular
> one among testers.


Hm, not sure how this happened but if i look at the filename it's
warty-final-ubuntu. Perhaps this was an accident?

> The new system sounds aren't great but i guess it's better than before
>
> I like that they're short & sweet.  The drums one took too long to
> finish playing.  Dapper's login sound is still my favourite though
> (twinkly!).
>
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