After writing the previous comment I realised we can just have the behaviour change in the greeter and not in the session if we want.
I think it is better with this solution though because: - The dialog is more consistent between session and greeter - The current PolicyKit dialog is bad because cancelling it closes your session - i.e. accidentally bumping the power button puts you in a situation where you session will close regardless of what you do. - Shutting down without closing a session is a very destructive operation - it is better to encourage the user to close each session manually [*] to avoid data loss. Knowledgeable sysadmins can do a forced shutdown by other methods and inexperienced users probably know how to power cycle. mpt/design, can you comment on the above? I propose we use this solution in raring and just push the greeter behaviour into SRUs for 12.04, 12.10. [*] We should probably make it possible to unlock sessions in the greeter with an administrator password so this is easily possible. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/861171 Title: Shutdown from greeter does nothing when multiple accounts open Status in The Session Menu: Triaged Status in LightDM GTK+ Greeter: Triaged Status in OEM Priority Project: In Progress Status in OEM Priority Project precise series: In Progress Status in Unity Greeter: Triaged Status in “gnome-session” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “indicator-session” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “policykit” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “unity-greeter” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Selecting shutdown from the greeter does nothing when multiple accounts are open. This is because the lightdm user (which the greeter runs as) does not have permission to shutdown while sessions are open. Inside a normal session this would just return you to the login screen. The solution is either for the indicator to say "not allowed" or to run a PolicyKit frontend in the greeter than can get the required permissions to perform the shutdown. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-session/+bug/861171/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
