Bug 164687 - lock/logout plasmoid: provide distinct plasmoids, lock and logout
Summary: lock/logout plasmoid: provide distinct plasmoids, lock and logout
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasma4
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2008-06-22 19:36 UTC by Maciej Pilichowski
Modified: 2009-02-11 08:37 UTC (History)
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Description Maciej Pilichowski 2008-06-22 19:36:58 UTC
Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

lock/logout plasmoid: provide distinct plasmoids, lock and logout

This way you could place lock on desktop, logout on panel, or lock small, logout big, or lock on right, logout on left, or just lock without logout, or... you name it :-)
Comment 1 Loic Marteau 2008-06-23 01:11:57 UTC
Planned for 4.2 to add a configuration interface to let the user choose 
if he want the both, just the lock or just the lockout.
Comment 2 Thomas Fjellstrom 2008-06-23 09:29:16 UTC
If a reduction in configuration options is really a goal, wouldn't it be better to have two separate applets? You get the same features, with fewer "options" cluttering things up.
Comment 3 FiNeX 2008-06-23 11:42:29 UTC
At this point, why not add even "restart" and "hybernate"? If buttons are configurable, this will allow to choose all possible combinations :-)
Comment 4 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-06-23 22:37:36 UTC
@Thomas: moving options around doesn't eliminate them it just moves them around. now, moving them to the best place possible makes it easier to use, breadth versus depth, selection lists, etc.

in this case, moving all possible buttons individually into the Add Applets section would add more breadth to that list, while many users actually want a *set* of these buttons.

so the two work flows are:

* Open Add Widgets
* Find and Add button 1
* Find and Add button 2

* Open Add Widgets
* Find and Add power controls
* Configure power controls

the latter one provides fewer and more context appropriate selections at each step; particularly consider that in the multiple widget situation buttons 1 and 2 will almost certainly not be adjacent; the "Find" action therefore is the expensive one.

that's why i'm suggesting what i did.

@FiNeX: absolutely.


(why do so many design discussions happen on bugs.kde.org these days?)
Comment 5 FiNeX 2008-06-23 23:05:23 UTC
(@Aaron: maybe because from a "techical" point of view KDE4 works, but now KDE4 need to be used, and for being used it need to be usable)
Comment 6 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-06-24 00:28:19 UTC
(@FiNeX: that doesn't explain why people no longer use the mailing lists as much and instead us bugs.kde.org which is insanely poor with my time.)
Comment 7 Javier 2008-06-26 02:45:40 UTC
Just were going to send a wish for a customizable and more general power options plasmoid but seems to be already planned. Great.
Comment 8 Michał D. (Emdek) 2008-10-19 13:48:06 UTC
It is possible to create shortcuts and use "icon plasmoid". These commands works fine on my computer (KDE 4.1.2):

 Lock:
 dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver.Lock

 Logout:
 dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer org.kde.KSMServerInterface.logout int32:1 int32:0 int32:1
Comment 9 Konstantinos Smanis 2009-02-10 13:53:27 UTC
This wishlist was implemented as of revision 923911 (http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=923911), but I am not empowered enough to mark it as fixed. Maybe shomeone else can do this for me?
Comment 10 Maciej Pilichowski 2009-02-11 08:37:04 UTC
Konstantinos, thank you.