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Re: [trinity-devel] Removing ksmserver shutdown dialog

From: Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:16:49 -0500
On 15 February 2012 14:14, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty@...> wrote:
> On 02/15/2012 12:10 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote:
>> 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
>
> That was the confusion -- I've never used it :) I've always just rt-clicked the
> desktop.

This was a learning experience :-) I never used the rt click on desktop!

So you just want to create the expanding sub-menu that would present
> all the options directly without having a dialog appear with them. That would be
> an improvement for menu users. I wonder if the original logout top-level could
> retain its function to bring up the dialog if clicked, while expanding and
> presenting the options if hovered. That way the original behavior would be
> preserved while providing an enhancement of the submenu on hover. Possible?
>

We should also eliminate the dialog for right clicking on the desktop
and replace it with a similar submenu as the one outline above.

Calvin