GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 150669
Logout key should be handled here
Last modified: 2020-11-06 20:09:30 UTC
See this for reference: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141472 Gnome-settings-daemon used to handle the logout key, typically set to Ctrl-Alt-Delete. But it didn't work. MarkMC suggested moving the actual key grabbing and processing to Metacity. The attached patch implements this. (The other bug has an attachment with the changes necessary for the control center).
Created attachment 30795 [details] [review] Patch to implement an "apps/metacity/global_keybindings/logout" gconf key and its functionality.
The patch looks good as an implementation of this feature, but see bug #130632 for a conflicting request; we need a policy decision I guess.
This bug is marked as blocking bug 141472 which has the 2.8.0 Gnome Milestone set, so I think it should be set here as well.
Hmm, good point. I didn't know about bug #130632. [*Really* supporting Ctrl-Alt-Delete in the Windows sense sounds like a little can of worms. You'd have to get rid of mouse/keyboard grabs and all that for when people panic if an app gets a stuck grab.]
Punting to the Gnome 2.8.x milestone (though perhaps it'll take longer considering bug 130632...)
Still relevant to 2.9. Would be great to see traction here :/ Elijah, I assume we should punt the milestone to 2.10?
We need a policy decision from usability (in bug 130632) first, as Havoc pointed out in comment 2. But, yeah, the milestone should be punted.
Actually, I'm just going to drop the milestone--it obviously isn't a "showstopper" for any release considering that we've punted twice may continue to punt; it would be nice to have a usability decision, though, so that if anyone shows up that wants to work on this bug we could at least tell them what to do...
Just trying to clean up http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/patch-report.cgi?product=metacity so that it can be used to find important unreviewed patches; kick me if this patch-status change is wrong...
We finally have a usability call; From bug 99335: If nobody else on the usability team is willing to make the call, I'd be happy to support anyone who wanted to make "Ctrl-Alt-Del = System monitor with a prominent logout button" :)
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