[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-02 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 17:43 +0100, Matt Zimmerman a écrit : > What is the issue with duplicating one option between the two dialogs? no real issue but I'm not an usability expert, mpt do you think that's something that could confuse users? -- Has not yet replaced the existing log out applet

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-02 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 17:43 +0100, Matt Zimmerman a écrit : > Maybe I'm confused. Above, it says "add an extra dialog" (in addition > to > the other two). Unless the applet is changed, it will still use the > log out > dialog. oh right, that's me who got confused when reading the reply --

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 06:09:58PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 16:57 +0100, Matt Zimmerman a écrit : > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 04:28:48PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > > > > * add an extra dialog similar to the 2 upstream ones which lists all the > > > options

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-02 Thread Martin Pitt
Sebastien Bacher [2008-10-02 17:53 +0200]: > there is no "old logout applet", this applet is an upstream gnome-panel > one and is still there in the current version Seb just pointed out to me that the logout applet is not actually deprecated. Previously I understood it that way, and thus looked fo

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-02 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 16:57 +0100, Matt Zimmerman a écrit : > On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 04:28:48PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > > * add an extra dialog similar to the 2 upstream ones which lists all the > > options > > ...and change the logout applet to use it (right?). no, since we would

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 04:28:48PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 13:37 +0100, Matt Zimmerman a écrit : > > I don't consider the redundant menu entries to be as much of a problem > > as > > having one of the most prominent buttons on the default desktop lose > > most of

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
NOTE: panel "applets" and "objects" are _DIFFERENT_ things! On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 17:40 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > * make the new fusa applet recognize the object ID of the old logout >applet, so that the panel shows it instead of the logout applet; >in a couple of releases we can final

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-02 Thread Martin Pitt
Sebastien Bacher [2008-10-02 16:28 +0200]: > * use the stock upstream dialogs and the new user switch applet and do > users configurations changes on update: > [...] > inconvenients: - breaks compatibility with earlier Ubuntu releases and other distributions, which is an issue for shared /home (

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-02 Thread Martin Pitt
Ted Gould [2008-10-01 16:38 -0500]: > To change gnome-panel so that when it saw the object ID for the logout > button and then put in the FUSA applet would be... interesting. I > imagine the code itself wouldn't be hard It'd actually be a bit more complex than that. The new fusa is essentially m

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-02 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 13:37 +0100, Matt Zimmerman a écrit : > I don't consider the redundant menu entries to be as much of a problem > as > having one of the most prominent buttons on the default desktop lose > most of > its functionality. Right, so let's summarize the discussion, I see 3 way

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 02:30:44PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 11:42 +0100, Matt Zimmerman a écrit : > > > Doing that would either require to change the upstream dialog to > > list > > > all the option or to add a new dialog similar to the current > > upstream > > >

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-02 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 11:42 +0100, Matt Zimmerman a écrit : > > Doing that would either require to change the upstream dialog to > list > > all the option or to add a new dialog similar to the current > upstream > > ones which list those. Changing the dialog would create a delta over > > upstr

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 12:30:46PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 09:04 +0100, Matt Zimmerman a écrit : > > This is not about how the dialog looks, but the end user functionality > > in > > it. The current upstream "Shut Down" dialog offers everything we need > > *exce

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-02 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 09:04 +0100, Matt Zimmerman a écrit : > This is not about how the dialog looks, but the end user functionality > in > it. The current upstream "Shut Down" dialog offers everything we need > *except* the "Log Out" option, and I would imagine this is possible to > add. > T

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 04:38:44PM -0500, Ted Gould wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 19:13 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > > Matt Zimmerman [2008-10-01 14:19 +0100]: > > > > That's correct. However, if the user doesn't get the deskbar applet > > > > added, > > > > they don't lose anything they had befo

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-01 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 19:13 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Matt Zimmerman [2008-10-01 14:19 +0100]: > > > That's correct. However, if the user doesn't get the deskbar applet > > > added, > > > they don't lose anything they had before. With the changed logout button, > > > they are losing functional

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-01 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Matt, Matt Zimmerman [2008-10-01 14:19 +0100]: > > That's correct. However, if the user doesn't get the deskbar applet added, > > they don't lose anything they had before. With the changed logout button, > > they are losing functionality they previously had. > > Note that this, the most s

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 10:15:53AM -0500, Ted Gould wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 14:19 +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Note that this, the most significant issue in my opinion, could be easily > > addressed by restoring the lost functionality to the logout button. > > Are you suggesting that th

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-01 Thread Ted Gould
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 14:19 +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Note that this, the most significant issue in my opinion, could be easily > addressed by restoring the lost functionality to the logout button. Are you suggesting that the logout button should have it's own dialog and not use the gnome-ses

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 02:23:42PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Scott James Remnant [2008-10-01 10:07 +0100]: > > On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 07:48 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > > > > > - if the old logout applet is configured in the panel, show the new > > >f-u-s-a instead > > > - if the old f-u-s-a

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-01 Thread Martin Pitt
Scott James Remnant [2008-10-01 10:07 +0100]: > On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 07:48 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > > > - if the old logout applet is configured in the panel, show the new > >f-u-s-a instead > > - if the old f-u-s-a applet is configured: > >- if the new fusa or the old logout applet

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-10-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 07:48 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > - if the old logout applet is configured in the panel, show the new >f-u-s-a instead > - if the old f-u-s-a applet is configured: >- if the new fusa or the old logout applet is configured, ignore >- else: show the new f-u-s-a >

[Bug 274146] Re: Desktop items

2008-09-30 Thread Martin Pitt
CC'ing the bug again, to archive the discussion. I hope you don't mind. Scott James Remnant [2008-09-30 15:57 +0100]: > - use gconftool-2 to query the panel applet list and object list: >/apps/panel/general/applet_id_list >/apps/panel/generic/object_id_list > >(the logout applet is a