The new logout design can cause unwanted reboots

[Vincenzo Ciancia]

Hi all,

I recall that ctrl+alt+backspace was disabled because it can be hit
accidentally. A similar thing happened to me; I experienced an unwanted
reboot and it's not so pleasant, even if I didn't loose any work.

I hit ctrl+alt+canc by "mistake" that is, trying to do something else; I
likely had some full screen window, hence the popup must have finished
below other windows. I have a decent monitor now (19'') and I didn't
actually see the flashing down in the bar (it's really too few
contrasted for LCD monitors, I am looking at it now). Then after the
timeout it turned off my system. 

With the extremely high focus on usability that ubuntu has, it is
impossible that we don't have a better solution: I see the need for a
confirmation pop-up, I see the need to have it unfocused to avoid
hitting it by mistake, I don't quite see the need for a timeout (I hate
it) but I assume that it had some planning and there are reasons for
that, but I also see the need to be more clear when... the system is
going to be turned off in a minute! What if my boss enters the room,
starts talking to me and I forget about the dialog? 

I suppose there was a discussion on that, but could we see if there is
some easy improvement? Perhaps at least a notification should be issued,
but even better, the window should get on top of other windows, and
unclickable, for a few seconds, then maybe go to bottom, or just become
clickable. Also, the good old dimmed screen was really helpful to
understand that something serious was going to happen. I see, changes
happened and We Shall no go Back. However, this does not work (at least
for me) as it currently is. Finally, what about a slightly longer
timeout? 

Vincenzo