15 Feb
2012
15 Feb
'12
6:31 p.m.
On Wednesday 15 February 2012 20:10:38 Calvin Morrison wrote:
On 15 February 2012 12:51, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty(a)suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
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.
On 02/15/2012 11:25 AM, 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
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 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