[interfacekit] Re: Shutdown Process

On 2005-07-07 at 02:23:09 [+0200], Axel Dörfler wrote:
> "DarkWyrm" <bpmagic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Why is there a point of no return? How much effort would it take to
> > allow cancellation of shutdown up to when _kern_shutdown() is called?
> > One thing that I have done (and I'm pretty sure others have) is
> > accidentally hit 'Reboot' or 'Shutdown' in the Deskbar. Couldn't a
> > script be called which checks to see if each nonvital server is
> > running
> > and start it back up if it isn't? It certainly would be a nice thing
> > to
> > have, if nothing else.
> 
> I think that's the wrong point to change. I would rather see "Shutdown"
> open a window where you can choose if you really want to turn off the
> computer.

Agreed.

> Dunno if that should be part of the registrar, though.

No, I think that should be the responsibility of the Deskbar. Otherwise you 
would get the same alert when invoking "shutdown" in the command line -- 
and I suppose you won't accidentially type this one. :-)

CU, Ingo

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