On Wednesday 15 February 2012 20:10:38 Calvin Morrison wrote:
> On 15 February 2012 12:51, David C. Rankin
>
> <drankinatty@...> wrote:
> > On 02/15/2012 11:25 AM, Calvin Morrison wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I think that we should just do away with the shutdown dialog. The same
> >> task could be easily achieved via the Kicker menu. A Leave submenu
> >> would be present and would expand to have all the options. Users would
> >> then be prompted with a dialog box "are you sure you want to X?"
> >>
> >> This would:
> >>
> >> 1. Allow for a streamlined and efficient interface
> >> 2. create a more consistent interface, custom dialogs are not good
> >> because they require more code, and are more complicated for a user to
> >> learn. The KSM functionality would not be compromised anyway, and you
> >> could still issue the same commands to it.
> >> 3. reduce clutter in the Kicker menu by moving Lock Session, Switch
> >> User, and Save Session to the new Leave submenu.
> >>
> >> What do you think?
> >>
> >> Calvin
> >
> > Hmm.. Are you talking about the context menu shutdown, or just getting
> > rid of the confirmation dialog that appears on shutdown?
>
> I am talking about the shutdown dialog that appears when one clicks
> "Logout" on the Kicker panel. I want to remove this custom dialog with
> a standard submenu in Kicker
>
> >I just get the logout
> > confirmation as I have set the session manager to restore previous
> > session to avoid a prompt. I rather like the logout confirmation because
> > it give the options to
> >
> > 'End Current Session'
> > 'Shutdown Computer
> > 'Restart Computer (with listbox for which GRUB OS to boot)'
> > 'Suspend Computer'
>
> All of these options would be available as well.
>
> > I have found the selection rather well laid-out and useful. I dunno, I'm
> > not that much of a start menu user. If I can rt-click and choose logout,
> > I have no need to navigate to unhide the taskbar and menu at all. Are you
> > sure that what you want can't be accomplished by setting the confirmation
> > options in 'KDE Components/Session Manager -> General' ? (aside from the
> > new kmenu entries..)
>
> yes those options aren't what I was looking to change.
>
>
> I made a mockup with the menu editor (non functional, but shows the
> idea) and I have attached a screen shot.
>
> In the shot the Icons are in an incorrect spot, they will replace the
> logout spot

Instead a submenu, we can put these buttons under "Run command". For example, 
I never use "Switch user" and "Lock session", for me "Suspend" would be much 
more useful.

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Serghei.