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Logout vs. shutdownLogout vs. shutdownPosted Oct 7, 2008 7:27 UTC (Tue) by dfsmith (guest, #20302)In reply to: Ubuntu 8.10 Beta released by alankila Parent article: Ubuntu 8.10 Beta released
Now you need to exit to the GDM session screen before you can shutdown machine. This doesn't look like progress to me... This is excellent progress! When you're drowsy and you hit Shutdown instead of Logout on the server then walk out of the door late at night, you will find this out too. (Next morning, when there's a lot of voicemail.) Admittedly the "feature" is less useful for desktop machines, but they get suspended rather than shut down anyway.
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Logout vs. shutdown Posted Oct 7, 2008 17:16 UTC (Tue) by alankila (subscriber, #47141) [Link]
If you are drowsy, wouldn't you just quit the desktop and then shut the machine down from the GDM dialog anyway? How does it protect you that shutting it down from desktop has been made harder?
Logout vs. shutdown Posted Oct 8, 2008 1:14 UTC (Wed) by dfsmith (guest, #20302) [Link] How does it protect you that shutting it down from desktop has been made harder?Because now the Shutdown will be more than 2 pixels away from Logout. (This machine must not be shutdown EXCEPT when maintenance needs to do something like remove AC power—and they can do than from GDM and power it back up again afterwards without having a login account.)
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