2012/2/28 Matthew Paul Thomas <m...@canonical.com> > > 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.
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