Add a gconf key to disable timed shutdown/restart/logout confirmation

I have not found an option to disable it in gconf-editor.

Agreed, doing name ▸ shutdown ▸ shutdown makes zero sense when I have already saved all my documents and did not hit the "power" button by accident. This is approaching windows-like amusement of start ▸ shutdown.

As I see this "feature" was requested in bug 283095.

So to keep this feature I propose to add an option in gconf-editor.

... or even better: To add an option in the Settins dialog.

So the users don't have to search for an option in the editor.
Also because gconf-editor is not shown in the gnome menus.

Unfortunately have to know-how about programming it.
Otherwise I would just attach a patch to fix it.

Finally I have written a patch to add an option for it.
This option is by default enabled. So the feature required in bug 283095
will be there by default. The user has to disable it manually in the options.

I have tested it and it works as expected.

It has been built in this PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~getdeb.packages/+archive/ppa

Is there a chance to get this in to jaunty?

Subscribing ubuntu-main-sponsors to review it.

This is an update for the german language file.
It also updates the strings I introduced in my patch above.

While we will not create a GUI option for this, I have no objection to a GConf key which can be set by experts. If that is added, I would expect it to be part of the test suite, otherwise we are adding complexity without adding QA (the gconf-driven codepath would be lightly tested by the community).

I don't understand why the "Lock the screen after switching users" and
"Create new logins in nested windows" are so important yet "Don't ask me to
press the "Shutdown" button twice and move the mouse across half of the
screen" not.

Showing a confirmation dialog upon pressing the shutdown button on the
computer is reasonable, it can be pressed by accident. There is however a
minimal chance that one will go to fusa -> shutdown *by accident*, and most
people will simply have to press "Shutdown" again - making them feel stupid
at having to tell the computer to do the same action twice.

I agree with Vadim at both points. Like I said before, the Confirmation Dialogue is driving me nuts, too, and as obviously there are many, many others feeling this way, I expected an GUI option to remove it to be released soon.
So it's quite disappointing what Mark's said, and I disagree with him when he says "otherwise we are adding complexity": In my eyes, complexity has already been added (ie. the confirmation dialogue), one would just provide an option to revert that.

(Again, I do not mean to offend anybody, but these Shutdown dialogues always have annoyed me when I used WinXP, and I was so glad that Ubuntu just did what I asked it for :-) )

@Tiefflieger:
As Mark said there only will be a gconf-key to disable the confirmation dialogs.
Nevertheless, we are free to build our own fast-user-switch-applet.
I already compiled one here:
https://launchpad.net/~getdeb.packages/+archive/ppa

This bug was fixed in the package fast-user-switch-applet - 2.24.0-0ubuntu10

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fast-user-switch-applet (2.24.0-0ubuntu10) jaunty; urgency=low

  * 84_session_management.patch:
    * Patch from Christoph Korn to fix the translations for the titles
      of the dialogs and the plural strings. (LP: #345587 and LP: #345344)
    * Patch from Christoph Korn to add a configuration option for whether
      the confirmation dialogs are shown. (LP: #345480)
    * Clean up the confirmation configuration patch to make the labels
      change dynamically as the GConf key is changed.
    * Switch key on the configuration patch to make it so that it defaults
      to false, which is the same as no key. This makes it so that the
      default upgrade case is to have the confirmation dialogs.
    * Change the logout dialogs to be standard dialogs instead of special
      ones and shorten the text in them. Also make them appear on all desktops
      and in the window switcher list incase they get lost.
  * 90_status_management.patch: Update to add invisible entry and icons
    for that entry. Patch from Walter Somerville. (LP: #294731) Fixed
    patch to make the invisible item above the logout item.
  * 88_status_icons.patch: Add icons for invisible status (above). Contributed
    by Ken Wimer.
  * 92_autotools.patch: Update for changes above.
  * Closes meta-bug for upload request: (LP: #347697)

 -- Ted Gould <email address hidden> Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:37:32 -0500

@#10 and how do I change that gconf switch (in Jaunty)? I have never had a need to edit my gconf, but I have found that "wait 60s for shutdown" terribly annoying since it showed up. Being able to change that in a GUI would be great.

discovered gconf-editor and its search function.

Will there be no longer an option to revert that in Karmic?
In Jaunty that would be: Right-Click on that fus-applet -> Preferences -> Uncheck "Confirmation window upon logout, reboot and shutdown"

In karmic there is a gconf key.

Great :-)
(What does that mean? That there will still be this option I described 2 posts earlier?)

There is this gconf key:
/apps/indicator-session/suppress_logout_restart_shutdown

It has the same behavior as the setting in fusa.

In english: I can't get rid of this annoying thing by adjusting the preferences in Karmic, like I do at Jaunty, right? I need to go the gconf-way...
Too bad :-(

Unfortunately yes.

On Sep 21, 2009 8:55 PM, "Tiefflieger" <email address hidden> wrote:

In english: I can't get rid of this annoying thing by adjusting the
preferences in Karmic, like I do at Jaunty, right? I need to go the
gconf-way...
Too bad :-(

-- Add a gconf key to disable timed shutdown/restart/logout confirmation
https://bugs.launchpad.n...

Ask Not ..... What?, your 'computer', can do for YOU ..... but what 'you' can DO, for your COMPUTER. Nonsense, I'm not suppose to make my computer's "life" easier. Why faster, more powerful, to accomplish less, I ask?

Honestly I can't see Your point regarding this discussion here...