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Available/choosable action buttons should be configurable
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Severity:
enhancement
Product:
Xfce4-panel
Component:
Action Buttons

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Description Dieter Plaetinck 2007-02-27 17:38:14 CET
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When you open the actionbuttons menu, you get this pane with 3 options:
"logout", "restart" and "shutdown".  I think it should be configurable which of these buttons should be shown and which not.
For example sometimes i install a system for non-tech people who just want to start and stop their computer, when they logout they end up at the console, whose workings they don't want to learn. (can't blame them).  a solution would be to immediatly startxfce again when they logout, but i find that an ugly hack.
I think a settings panel somewhere where you have checkboxes for which buttons to show and which not would be very handy.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Diego Ongaro 2007-03-01 04:54:05 CET
It might be worthwhile to look at Ubuntu's (possibly inherited from Debian) package for xfce4-session. They added the options to suspend and hibernate, and added checkboxes to disable those, among other changes.
Comment 2 Nick Schermer editbugs 2008-08-02 15:31:31 CEST
Why not create a launcher...
Comment 3 Nick Schermer editbugs 2009-03-19 10:27:06 CET
You can still define 2 actions max in the 4.8 panel, but choose which ones.
Comment 4 Craig Ringer 2009-06-11 10:36:11 CEST
It'd also be helpful if actions that couldn't be performed due to PolicyKit restrictions or lack of hardware support (think: shutdown/reboot for pk, suspend/resume for both hardware limits and pk).

Currently such options are shown even when clicking on them will only produce an error from HAL because an action isn't supported or is blocked by PolicyKit.
Comment 5 Nick Schermer editbugs 2010-02-27 15:09:00 CET
Devel branch has been merged in master. A 4.7.0 release will follow soon. If you think this bug is not fixed? Feel free to reopen the bug.

Bug #2958

Reported by:
Dieter Plaetinck
Reported on: 2007-02-27
Last modified on: 2010-02-27

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Assignee:
Nick Schermer
CC List:
3 users

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