Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
These can be treated the same way as Windows does, with a "This program is not responding" alert <http://www.jvwinc.com/end-now.gif>, or the same way OS X does, with an "<appname> cancelled shutdown" alert.
Yes, but this is a feature of Windows that makes people cringe. It gives people a feeling that the app or system is broken.
I would suggest a solution with a dialogue without a counter but where you do have to click confirm to activate to avoid data loss. The data protection can be catered for by calling the screen locking/screen saver app with a time parameter that is shorter than the user's default. 60 or 90 seconds is probably fine.
It may be necessary to modify the screen locking program to accept a parameter to override the default time, but if so, that would mean modifying just one app instead of the hundreds that would need to save data properly.
- Henrik -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
