Bug 253405

Summary:	consider making shutdown dialog timeout shorter
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Oliver Henshaw <oliver.henshaw>
Component:	Theme - Breeze	Assignee:	Lubos Lunak <l.lunak>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bugzilla, jwelsh, kainz.a, nate, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
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Description Oliver Henshaw 2010-10-06 18:12:30 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.5) 
OS:                Linux

For the shutdown/logout dialogs I have a choice between (a) unticking "Confirm logout" in Session Manager settings and logging out with no chance to confirm; (b) having a confirmation dialog with a fairly long (30 seconds) timeout that I have to explicitly confirm if I want to logout/rest/shutdown in a hurry.

Something like 10 seconds would be a better compromise between prompt shutdown and having a fair chance to cancel/amend an unintended action. Or perhaps the timeout could be configurable?

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Janet 2012-05-24 16:49:30 UTC

I'd rather like to configure the time before the automatic action takes place: endless = disable countdown, dialog stays there until user does something, and 60, 30, 10 seconds or so.

Comment 2 Jacob Welsh 2013-01-21 23:45:52 UTC

I agree 30 seconds seems like a bad compromise. If, as I argue in #313480, these prompts are viewed as separate cases of safety prompts for the explicit shutdown/logout options, and requests for further information for the generic "Leave" options, it might make sense to have a 10-second timeout on the former and none on the latter.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2020-01-31 22:13:13 UTC

*** Bug 360298 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2020-01-31 22:24:53 UTC

Submitted a patch: https://phabricator.kde.org/D27077

Let's see where it goes.

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2020-02-03 22:08:37 UTC

It didn't go anywhere. :) Nobody was in favor, so I'm afraid I have to close this bug as RESOLVED INTENTIONAL. You can see the discussion in https://phabricator.kde.org/D27077 for details.

If anyone can articulate a strong reason there why 10 seconds is better than 30, it might be possible to revisit the matter.