Change to log off/shutdown workflow

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Tue Mar 3 22:31:22 UTC 2009


Hi,

In current Jaunty, there is no "Log Out..." or "Shut Down" button in
the System menu. Instead, the user has to use the red "Power" button
against their name in the top panel. If the applet is removed, either
intentionally or accidentally, the options appear again in the System
menu.

We will have to update the documentation to reflect this. There are
various places where this appears, I think. I think it will need to
say something like this:

"To log out, click the red power button in the top panel, and choose
"Log out". If you do not have the red power button for some reason,
choose "System" -> "Log Out...".

I'm not sure whether it is necessary to document the second option,
but people do tend to remove panel applets by accident sometimes, so
it may be worth it. What do others think?

This also affects the Gnome documents, unfortunately, so as a result
of this choice by the developers we will have to introduce a further
delta between Ubuntu's Gnome documents and Gnome's versions of the
documents.

Would anyone like to have a go at identifying all the places where this appears?

-- 
Matthew East
http://www.mdke.org
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