Comment 8 for bug 432635

Code-wise I'm okay with the changes, but conceptually this seems a bit flawed to me. Now, the session indicator consistently displays the online status. With those changes, it will switch back and forth between "shutdown" and "online", and the original problem of not being able to figure out where to shutdown remains when the user is online.

If the proposed changes are considered a stopgap measure for Karmic, with a more consistent design being planned for Lucid, I'm fine with this. But I wouldn't treat it as a permanent solution.