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[Marco Biscaro <marcobiscaro2112@xxxxxxxxx>]

2012/2/28 Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>
> The shutdown and logout dialogs (and the restart dialog, when it was
> separate) used to have a 60-second countdown. We dropped it because it
> is wrong to assume that the computer will shut down or log out by
> itself once the countdown reaches zero.


Isn't right to assume that the computer will shutdown when I choose
"Shutdown" in the power menu? Currently this doesn't happen. Mark stated
that the confirmation dialog is a way to undo a possibly unwanted action.
Isn't reasonable to shutdown the computer if I don't undo the action before
a given timeout?


> After all, the countdown might
> immediately be followed by one or more alert boxes of the form "Save
> changes to “Untitled” before closing?" -- alert boxes which are not,
> and cannot safely be, subject to the same kind of countdown.
>

This is a corner case, I think. At least, in my workplace, people save
everything, close programs and then choose shutdown.


> But the only way
> to be sure that an Ubuntu, Mac, or Windows PC will log out or shut
> down safely is to wait a few seconds to answer any questions it asks
> after you choose that command.


Sure, but I still think the shutdown (and logout) experience could be
improved with the countdown thing.