[haiku-development] Re: The ways of Reboot. Acknowledge or not?
- From: "Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:05:03 +0200 CEST
Ubuntu/Gnome has a menu which appears to have had
some thought put into it. (Always a good thing.)
It looks something like this:
[Jonas [on/off symbol]]
-----------
Mike
Mary (in bold if logged on)
Guest session
Lock screen
-----------
Log out
Suspend
Hibernate
Restart
Shut down
-----------
The issue of what to call the top item is sidestepped
by showing the name of the currently logged on user
and a symbol meaning on/off. Could that work in
Deskbar´s menu somehow?
The menu is divided in two parts, where the first
part is about sessions, where you can chose from
other (real) user accounts to switch to (without
logging off from the current account, I suppose),
including a Guest account and also the option to
Lock screen for (the current session).
The other part of the menu is about the system as
a whole.
The entire menu has an order where the options appear
to have been roughly sorted in level of disruptiveness,
especially in the system-wide section where "Shut down"
is the most disruptive, "Hibernate" and "Suspend" being
less disruptive. "Restart" is listed above "Shutdown"
since it allows continuation, being less disruptive than
a complete shutdown.
(Personally I would put the "Log out" option at the
end of the first part of the menu, since its about
session. One might think screen locking is less
disruptive than user switching, and put that option
at the very top.)
Maybe something like this:
[Jonas [on/off symbol]]
-----------
Lock screen
Log out
-----------
Mike
Mary (in bold if logged on)
Guest session
-----------
Suspend
Hibernate
Restart
Shut down
-----------
/Jonas.
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