[Ayatana] Lock Screen / Guest Session / Switch From / Log Out / Suspend / Hibernate / Shut Down

2010-06-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Hamm wrote on 15/05/10 17:04: > > "The more options and questions and choices we present to the > user, the less they will want to know about *any* of them." > > btw, you have seen the power menu right? >... Yes, it is a problem that we offer

Re: [Ayatana] Lock Screen / Guest Session / Switch From / Log Out / Suspend / Hibernate / Shut Down

2010-06-18 Thread David Hamm
imo this is a very tricky problem. Assumptions: regular users either: don't turn of their computers and (would prefer) them to be instantly ready. or b, they want to save power/"turn off the glowing box" and attempt to "power down" the computer First part is easy (to say), system should auto susp

Re: [Ayatana] Lock Screen / Guest Session / Switch From / Log Out / Suspend / Hibernate / Shut Down

2010-06-18 Thread David Hamm
That being said, I like whatcha got on the website already :p ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ayatana] Lock Screen / Guest Session / Switch From / Log Out / Suspend / Hibernate / Shut Down

2010-06-18 Thread David Hamm
sorry for spam, forgot the lock icon above. (lock) (sus) (res) (shut) Arno Gourdol, Mac OS X developer: “I actually think that the result could have been even better than what we ended up with. I argued against including Resta

Re: [Ayatana] Lock Screen / Guest Session / Switch From / Log Out / Suspend / Hibernate / Shut Down

2010-06-18 Thread Alex Launi
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:28 PM, David Hamm wrote: > sorry for spam, forgot the lock icon above. (lock) (sus) (res) (shut) > > Arno > Gourdol, > Mac OS X developer: “I actually think that the result could have been even > bet

Re: [Ayatana] Lock Screen / Guest Session / Switch From / Log Out / Suspend / Hibernate / Shut Down

2010-06-18 Thread Remco
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 19:54, Alex Launi wrote: > Any easy fix to remedy part of the situation would be to remove the Guest > session button and move that into the 'Switch from' window. That sounds alright. Choosing the mysterious "Guest Session" is conceptually the same as switching to a brand

Re: [Ayatana] Lock Screen / Guest Session / Switch From / Log Out / Suspend / Hibernate / Shut Down

2010-06-18 Thread Mark Curtis
er were to figure out to "shut down" then press the power button, it's an extra step. > From: remc...@gmail.com > Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:13:28 +0200 > To: alex.la...@gmail.com > CC: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Lock Screen / Guest Session /

Re: [Ayatana] Lock Screen / Guest Session / Switch From / Log Out / Suspend / Hibernate / Shut Down

2010-06-18 Thread Alex Launi
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Mark Curtis wrote: > Removing "Restart" would cause a lot of people to be upset. Not only > since "Restart" is a pretty basic function, but that it'd be confusing that > after a kernel update it says the computer must be restarted, when the > option would no lon

Re: [Ayatana] Lock Screen / Guest Session / Switch From / Log Out / Suspend / Hibernate / Shut Down

2010-06-19 Thread Kristoffer Lundén
Re: Suspend/Hibernate - is it possible, technically, to do both? If so, the session could be saved to both memory and swap, and if the power remains, it could wake up from suspend, but if the power has gone away, it could boot from hibernate, with loss of data or session. I seem to recall, vaguely,

Re: [Ayatana] Lock Screen / Guest Session / Switch From / Log Out / Suspend / Hibernate / Shut Down

2010-06-19 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Saturday 19,June,2010 04:17 PM, Kristoffer Lundén wrote: > Re: Suspend/Hibernate - is it possible, technically, to do both? If so, > the session could be saved to both memory and swap, and if the power > remains, it could wake up from suspend, but if the power has gone away, > it could boot from

Re: [Ayatana] Lock Screen / Guest Session / Switch From / Log Out / Suspend / Hibernate / Shut Down

2010-06-19 Thread David Hamm
is it possible to wake from sleep and hibernate after a set time? or would it be easier to just wake/get all applications to save their state and then shut down after set time? ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.l

Re: [Ayatana] Lock Screen / Guest Session / Switch From / Log Out / Suspend / Hibernate / Shut Down

2010-06-19 Thread Conscious User
Le samedi 19 juin 2010 à 07:30 -0700, David Hamm a écrit : > is it possible to wake from sleep and hibernate after a set time? I don't know about Linux, but if I remember correctly Windows 7 has such feature, so in terms of hardware it seems possible. _