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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Ubuntu has no complete specification for the appearance and behavior of
startup, login, locking, unlocking, suspending, hibernating, resuming,
restarting, and shutting down.

Without a specification, any request for a design change is unlikely to
take into account consistency with, or constraints imposed by, the rest
of the session system.

For example:
- How should you be discouraged from, or warned about, losing data when logging out of a guest session?
- What should "Restart" or "Shut Down" do if other user accounts are logged in? (bug 855556)
- What should happen if you try to choose "Restart" while the "Log Out" dialog is open?
- How should the lock screen command and option be presented for a user account that logs in automatically?

This bug will be fixed when the desired behavior for all UI-related bug
reports in <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session> is
either obvious, or specified in
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SessionHandling>.

** Affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
         Status: New

** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)

** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: None => precise-alpha-1

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882296

Title:
  No complete specification for how Ubuntu sessions are supposed to work

Status in “gnome-session” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Ubuntu has no complete specification for the appearance and behavior
  of startup, login, locking, unlocking, suspending, hibernating,
  resuming, restarting, and shutting down.

  Without a specification, any request for a design change is unlikely
  to take into account consistency with, or constraints imposed by, the
  rest of the session system.

  For example:
  - How should you be discouraged from, or warned about, losing data when logging out of a guest session?
  - What should "Restart" or "Shut Down" do if other user accounts are logged in? (bug 855556)
  - What should happen if you try to choose "Restart" while the "Log Out" dialog is open?
  - How should the lock screen command and option be presented for a user account that logs in automatically?

  This bug will be fixed when the desired behavior for all UI-related
  bug reports in <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-
  session> is either obvious, or specified in
  <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SessionHandling>.

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