I also liked the timer -- it served a purpose that provided genuine usability advantages.
Choose shutdown once and then leave. If you realize within 60 sec that you really wanted to do something else on the computer, you can cancel the shutdown. This way you don't have to confirm the shutdown if you don't want to (having to confirm is just irritating -- I just told the computer to shut down, right?), but it gives you a grace period in case you forgot something. The shutdown confirmation dialog does not accomplish this. It is actually a usability problem. Nobody sees the confirmation dialog and then sits and tries to figure out whether they really need to do something else before shutting down. It is just an box that one quickly gets trained to click on without thinking. And once one is trained to do so, then it serves absolutely no purpose and would be better if absent. There could be a valid reason for this design decision, but the reason stated by Tim Gould (who changed to "won't fix") is not a valid reason. >Basically, if the dialogs come up fast enough >it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to have them count down as >well. People will see and respond to them. This is invalid because it doesn't indicate an understanding of genuine usability issues which support the countdown timer on the shutdown / logout confirmation dialog. -- Shutdown timer no longer appears https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/548415 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
