GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 683252
Offer logout option (modal) after selecting language
Last modified: 2012-09-14 06:29:21 UTC
See patch for rationale.
Created attachment 223254 [details] [review] userMenu: Renable logout for single user/session systems We removed the logout option from the user menu on single user and single session setups because it is "useless". This is not true though because we require a relogin to change language settings without the option we basically require the user to reboot or powercycle the system in that case. Also the region panel says "will be active on the next login" which is confusingwhen a logout option is not present. So restore the menu entry and just hide switch user / session.
The problem at hand is not a missing logout, but the inability to apply a language change. Enabling log out in a a prominent place to address a corner case scenario would be inappropriate. I would much rather see effort to make the language change work without logging out, or providing a way to reload the session from the context of the change (the least appealing option being a modal/in app notification to log out).
(In reply to comment #2) > The problem at hand is not a missing logout, but the inability to apply a > language change. Enabling log out in a a prominent place to address a corner > case scenario would be inappropriate. > > I would much rather see effort to make the language change work without logging > out, or providing a way to reload the session from the context of the change > (the least appealing option being a modal/in app notification to log out). Damn near impossible because of the way the stack is built.
(In reply to comment #2) > The problem at hand is not a missing logout, but the inability to apply a > language change. Enabling log out in a a prominent place to address a corner > case scenario would be inappropriate. > > I would much rather see effort to make the language change work without logging > out, or providing a way to reload the session from the context of the change > (the least appealing option being a modal/in app notification to log out). As discussed on IRC changing the language at runtime is kind of hard but having the a modal dialog prompt in the region panel sounds like a good solution without adding an otherwise useless option.
Created attachment 223273 [details] [review] region: Offer logout option after changing language
Created attachment 223274 [details] [review] region: Offer logout option after changing language * Whitespace fixes
This is more pressing now, but it's a dupe of bug 647373. I don't really like the separate logout dialogue, and would rather have a button show up prominently, in the user's selected language, asking them to logout. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 647373 ***