Manu Cornet wrote:
There are titles for the two sections, and the icons are placed
differently: it is a "Pause" versus "Exit" approach, as opposed to a
"Light effect on the system" (Logout, Switch, Lock) versus "Strong
effect on the system" (ShutDown, etc.).

The code is already written (this is an actual screenshot).

So twhree questions:
* How do you like the approach ? :)

I think that this dialogue is a departure from Gnome HIG in that there should be a button to the right of "Cancel" that merely confirms what the user has already asked for - namely "Log Out", at least the graphical "Log Out" button should be at the bottom right of the dialogue. On the current dialogue, I keep going to Shut Down since that is the direction in which Gnome puts the confirmation choice.

I don't think people think of powering down as being a type of either log out or lock screen, rather log out and lock screen are a consequence of powering down so I think the power saving options, shut down, and restart (*especially* restart), should not be found via "Log Out". Only us few computer savvy users think of the logical progression of actions that the computer will perform - and some of us don't even do *that* for things like this. Failing that, the previous layout of this aesthetically pretty dialogue represents that, and could just be given the section headings (as well as swapping the rows and putting log out at the bottom right, pretty pleeeaasse).

* Should the two titles be centered instead of left-aligned ?

Every Gnome dialogue that uses subheadings for differently nuanced sections uses left alignment (at least for my native tongue). They also use much a much smaller font, and the dialogues have proper titlebars. Smaller fonts would probably require smaller icons, though.

* Should I write "Pause session" instead of "Pause", and "Exit session"
instead of "Exit" ?

I think I think maybe "Session" and "Power Down" with the old layout would give me more warm and fuzzies.

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Tristan Wibberley

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