Bug 197164 - Don't present suspend options in a drop down menu
Summary: Don't present suspend options in a drop down menu
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 184663
Alias: None
Product: ksmserver
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: ui (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Unspecified
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Lubos Lunak
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Reported: 2009-06-19 16:32 UTC by Alex Dănilă
Modified: 2009-11-23 20:05 UTC (History)
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Description Alex Dănilă 2009-06-19 16:32:05 UTC
Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Selecting suspend/hibernate from the dropdown menu is very error prone, and when the user wants a hibernation or suspend she is very likely to get by mistake an entire shutdown.

How to reproduce:
-right click on the desktop
-select "leave" from the menu
-from the popup that appears target "Shutdown", try to get to "Suspend to RAM" and notice this is prone to mistake. This becomes a challenge with a touchpad.


This happens only if she actually realizes that there is such an option under the shutdown menu.

I don't know what's the best solution to showing the multitude of shutdown options, but this a very bad one.

I would suggest to split the leave menu:
leave: shutdown, restart, logoff
suspend: suspend, suspend to disk, suspend to both
"Lock screen" is a bonus, I don't know where to put it.
Comment 1 Lubos Lunak 2009-11-23 20:05:31 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 184663 ***