I agree with this statement because Ubuntu would look a little more professional with a "Session" lens. This way, it won't clutter up the dash any more than it has to.
This is all just wrong. Why are the logout, shut down, restart
controls needed in Dash? Why repeat the same functionality that's
already there in the power-cog? It just adds clutter, nothing more.
If a keyboard shortcut is sought after, then the Alt-F4 dialog
should be improved instead. Having to activate Dash, type "shu" and
press return is not a "short"-cut anyway... Plus, from what I saw in
OMG Ubuntu, if you type "logout", the first entry is restart?!? So,
if you press return after that...
I think it's a useless repetition of functionality but if you really
want to have this in Dash, please at least implement it right.
Session management actions are not applications. A new Lens called
"Session Management" or "Session" should be implemented with
"Restart", "Logout", "Shutdown", "Suspend", and "Hibernate". Plus,
searches for other common terms should direct to logical items. E.g.
"halt","shut", "quit", or "exit" should bring shutdown, "reboot"
should bring restart, "sleep" should bring suspend, "logoff" should
bring logout, etc. Searching for "session" should bring all of them.
Of course, with a new lens, these could (should) be mouse-clicked
too.
Eylem
On 10/10/2011 3:52 PM, Thibaut Brandscheid wrote:
I don't
think matching any terminal commands in the applications lens
is a good idea. The Alt+F2 command lens is a better place for
that.
Now we have session management in the Dash. It is absurd
to relearn the commands for the Dash because they use
different names or have a space in it. All I suggest is to
show the same search result for e. g.:
'shut down', 'shutdown' or 'halt'.
Alt+F2
Is not the right place - IMHO. To shutdown the computer I
would have to write:
'gksudo halt' → pw → press Enter
... this is way to long. I would prefer then the cog.
Dash
open Dash + tip 'halt' + two times Enter → much better and
faster