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Bug 107813 - Add context menu to shutdown button
Add context menu to shutdown button
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: panel
2.13.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-03-07 13:18 UTC by Reinout van Schouwen
Modified: 2014-07-11 21:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Reinout van Schouwen 2003-03-07 13:18:17 UTC 
I recently noticed that the context menu of the shutdown button only      
     consists of three standard items. It occured to me that it would be
nice to have quick access to logout/halt/reboot (without confirmation?) by
placing those items in that button's context menu.
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2003-09-24 15:36:28 UTC 
It would be nice, but we'd need a way to reboot/halt the computer
before that. (I think there was some red hat specific code for that or
something like that).
Comment 2 Reinout van Schouwen 2003-09-25 09:59:24 UTC 
Actually I wasn't aware that this wasn't sorted out yet in a generic
way. The logout dialog on my Mandrake box shows logout/shutdown
options which work nicely.
Comment 3 Reinout van Schouwen 2006-01-22 01:56:21 UTC 
The Logout and Shutdown buttons have been separated in the latest panel release. 

I still believe it would be good to put Shutdown+Reboot in the context menu, as a quick-access feature. Compare regular launchers on the panel that have 'Execute' as the first context menu item.
Comment 4 Reuben Thomas 2014-07-11 10:50:53 UTC 
This bug makes little sense with respect to the current GNOME 3 interface, so surely it can be closed?
Comment 5 Reinout van Schouwen 2014-07-11 20:55:22 UTC 
Is gnome-panel even actively maintained any more? Maybe it could still be relevant for Classic mode, but I had long ago forgotten about this one myself, so feel free to close.
Comment 6 Reuben Thomas 2014-07-11 20:57:55 UTC 
Just to be clear: I have no power to close this, whereas as a developer, presumably you, Reinout, do. You're right that, at least in GNOME, the panel has been replaced by GNOME Flashback.
Comment 7 Reinout van Schouwen 2014-07-11 21:13:43 UTC 
Flashback? I must have missed something...