I thought about this thing while reading Andreas Post in the Forums. I have no real preference for any of the dialogs, but I want to share my thoughts.
I think there are basically two motivations, which can drive the user to end his session: 1. he wants to change the state of the PC (reboot, shutdown, hibernate etc.) 2. he wants to change the state of the session (lock screen, logout, change user) this two topics are not really connected to each other and therefore you can set a default for each, which will be chose after a timeout. I'd choose shutdown and lock screen - I think this is the best choice for the user if he "forgets" what he initially wanted to do. You are alreadyrespecting this by putting the according buttons in two seperate lines - so why not make two seperate dilogs out of it and gaining the default preset wished by Soren Hauberg. -- logout dialog UI objections https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/33002 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
