Ladislav Slezak wrote:
I think logout and reboot/shutdown actions should not be offered together. IMO home users on a desktop usually do shutdown at the end, reboot or logout just sometimes (at least this is my experience). On the other hand in web applications you usually use logout, reboot/shutdown is really unusual.
The other idea was to hide Shutdown and Restart under a combo box in the title bar: It could look something like this [Icon] [Titel] Connected to: localhost | User: root | [Logout |v] And Shutdown and Restart would only be accessible when selected. The cons to this approach were: * Is it obvious to the user? I think not. * We would still need something like a confirmation pop up in order to avoid unintended shut downs
Therefore I would not use the desktop approach and make these actions less visible, i.e. they don't need to be accessible at all pages (in the header).
I would find it much more confusing, if the shut down possibility would be accessible only in some places.
Robert suggested adding buttons to the status part of the control center (to the right side).
Thanks for the mock ups! Be honest, I find it hard to make a connection between status and shutdown. The other concern is that similar functionalities are separated: shutdown, restart and logout are all exit options but they are quite far away from each other. So therefore I would recommend to stick to the desktop-like approach. But let`s wait for other opinions and I hope that some user tests would bring in some clarification :-) BTW: Can anyone of you recommend a simple git-tutorial page for an absolute git-newbie like me? This would be perfect! Cu, Martin -- Martin Schmidkunz User Experience Specialist martin.schmidkunz@novell.com +49 (0) 911 740 53-346 ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Novell, Inc. SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 Your Linux is ready http://www.novell.com/linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org