Am Dienstag, den 08.05.2007, 12:49 +0200 schrieb Jochen Hayek:
I need it.
For locking my screen I type Alt-F1 and then I select the "Lock Screen" entry using cursor keys.
Are you not locking your screen?
How else do you lock your screen?
Usually I just don't because, if you haven't changed Gnome-defaults, after a few minutes the screensaver will lock the screen. I mean, I see your point, this is not always a good idea in a working-environment. But there are lots of other options that lots of other people would also have good reasons to want them integrated into the main-menu. What about fast user-switching? Run command (Alt+F2)? And Standby? Hibernate? Reboot? Should we have them in the main-menu? You could make all these options pop-up when you hold down the left mouse-key for two seconds, or have an extra sub-menu like Vista does, of course...: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21vistaOff.PNG I am hinting here at a very good blog entry about the sense and non-sense of the many session-options in Vista's menu; don't know whether you already happen to know it, it's well worth reading: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.html Personally, I tend to agree with the author on that you should not try to make everyone happy because by the resulting abundance of choices you hopelessly confuse most users and thus void the value of all the options for them. An intelligent design can make some of that choice unneccessary, as Joel writes. While hiding additional entries (hold mouse-button pressed to reveal options) would be better than having all these buttons in the menu all the time IMHO, Joel's suggestions seem even better: Imagine having one Logout-button, clicking on which will lock the screen and show a countdown. During this time you can decide to lock the screen more permanently, log back on, switch users, reboot, whatever. When the countdown goes to zero, the machine goes to sleep (save-to-ram, if possible). After some hours without use it would wake up briefly and shutdown properly. So with one button you would cover locking your screen, a no-brainer 'off'-switch for novice users, and a menu with all the session-related options you need. (Gnome's logout-button already works similarly, so it would be just an extension of that.) If your machine supports save-to-ram, you would only need one click to secure your machine if not two clicks. What do you think? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org