Bug 171255

Summary:	kde 4 kickoff should not launch logout choices window
Product:	[Plasma] plasma4	Reporter:	Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa>
Component:	widget-kickoff	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugs.kde.org, echidnaman, finex, kde
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Shriramana Sharma 2008-09-18 08:05:57 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.1)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Running KDE 4.1.1 on Kubuntu Intrepid Alpha 5 + latest updates as of 2008-09-18.

Launching Kickoff, I get a tab called "leave". Upon hovering my mouse on it, it automatically opens. I click on logout, shutdown or restart. I get another logout choices window saying that my option will be executed in 60 seconds and giving me the option to select logout / shutdown ( / suspend to ram / suspend to disk ) / reboot.

Seeing as you are including logout etc in the Kickoff menu tab itself, the logical method would be:

1. User clicks on one of logout / shutdown / reboot from the Kickoff menu.
2. KDE displays a countdown menu for 15 seconds (60 seconds is too much) saying computer will logout / shutdown / reboot, and offering only an option to cancel the action for logout and reboot.
3. In the case of shutdown option, offer four options: normal shutdown, suspend to ram, suspend to disk, cancel.

Otherwise, getting a logout choices window after I have made a logout choice seems silly.

Please fix this. I reported it against the login manager because I didn't know where else to report it. Thanks for all your excellent work on KDE.

Comment 1 FiNeX 2008-09-27 02:35:50 UTC

You can disable this behaviour from system settings:

system settings -> advanced -> session manager

Is this ok for you?

Comment 2 Shriramana Sharma 2008-09-28 07:20:34 UTC

No this is not OK for me, though I see that my bug summary is somewhat unclear now, having seen this System Settings option.

I have no problem with being presented a logout *confirmation* window. My point was that after having made a choice of what action to perform, (Logout / Shutdown / Reboot) I should not be again presented with the choices. 

So in my summary, the emphasis is on the word "choices". Maybe it would be clearer to read: "kde 4 user should not be presented with choices in logout confirmation window after having made choice in kickoff itself" but it's longer.

Also noting that downstream (Ubuntu and perhaps SUSE) seem to already have implemented point 3 in my list above, that is providing separate "Suspend to RAM" and "Suspend to Disk" options. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272882

Comment 3 Vincent Panel 2008-09-29 13:37:17 UTC

Mandriva 2009.0 suffers the same problem.

Comment 4 Jonathan Thomas 2008-11-20 16:13:38 UTC

In trunk (and in Kubuntu 8.10) clicking on one of logout / shutdown / reboot will show a confirmation dialog rather than a full-blown choice menu. You have either the choice to reboot now, wait for it to do it automatically, or cancel.