Bug 469295 (ShutdownRedundancy) - Too Much Redundancy in Shutdown.
Summary: Too Much Redundancy in Shutdown.
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: ShutdownRedundancy
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kdebase-workspace
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-10-31 04:44 UTC by Clifford Keele
Modified: 2008-10-31 10:10 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-10-31 05:01:42 UTC
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Description Clifford Keele 2008-10-31 04:44:34 UTC
Description of problem:
There is too much redundancy in the "new" shutdown command from the menu.
KDE Desktop.
Select "F"
Select "Leave"
Get Choice (Logout/Lock/Switch User/Suspend to RAM/Suspend to Disk/Shutdown/Restart)
Select "Shutdown"
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Now one gets another popup menu that has the same choices.
(Logout/Turn off Computer/Restart Computer) (with submenu options "Suspend to Ram" and "Suspend to Disk".
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I would encourage either eliminating the confirmation pop-up, or keeping the popup, and eliminating the choices from the menu, leaving only a "shutdown" button.
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I would also add a choice of "Clean Shutdown" which would forget all the open programs/windows.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
KDE Desktop (not applicable in Gnome)
Fedora 10 Snap2 & Snap3
I see also in Fedora 9.

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
(see above)

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2008-10-31 05:01:42 UTC
Nod, many a upstream bug reported on this already. :(

Unfortunately, there is no simple fix.

I can dig up some of the upstream bug references if you like.

In the meantime, my current favorite workaround is: right click Desktop -> logout (or ALT-F2, type: logout) which avoids one level of redundancy.

Comment 2 Kevin Kofler 2008-10-31 08:39:37 UTC
AFAIK this has finally be fixed in 4.2 (the confirmation dialog now only shows the selected option and cancel).

Comment 3 Jaroslav Reznik 2008-10-31 10:10:30 UTC
Other possibility - you can add Lock/Logout Plasma applet to your panel and avoid unnecessary steps in F menu.


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