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Log Out window
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 5:28 am
by MadRat
Edubuntu has a nice looking Log Out screen:
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Should ROS eventually have something as nice and easy to look at... Or should ROS be going to generic Windows look?
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 8:31 am
by Alkali
I think that logout screen would be great for Ros, I also think the Ubuntu login screen after boot is quite nice as well.
By the way, that background shows the most stereotypical depiction of diffrent ethnicities that I have ever seen.
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:55 am
by nightshade
A nice logonui.exe like the winxp one would be greate. Choose if you want to see the old Win2k login window or the new one from XP.
Btw the edubuntu window looks a little bit to childish/strange (a common problem of linux guis i think)
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 2:22 pm
by EmuandCo
Theres still a LOT of work needed to do that. Wait a bit. A Logout screen will come anyway in the future.
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:16 am
by MadRat
I was looking around for shutdown examples and ran across this commercial product that allows you to highly customize Windows, along with controlled shutdowns:
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Another fun example of commercial controls developed for Windows:
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Would set ROS back alot to just incorporate these ideas from the beginning, but we can always dream.
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 12:50 pm
by keytotime
It's just another program that just set's registry settings.
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:08 am
by Blazkowicz
I like it the way it is in my Windows, click on the log off button in start menu if I choose it to be available there, and display that really plain dialog box
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Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:18 pm
by Dominik
Log off *click* -> "Are you shure?" ... Yes I am *click* -> "Are you really shure? Or do you want to lock screen" ... *argh* and the user pushes the power button because he is annoyed of beeing spammed by options what to do!
Shutdown, Logout and Reboot ... thats all you need!
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:34 am
by Phalanx
Dominik wrote:Log off *click* -> "Are you shure?" ... Yes I am *click* -> "Are you really shure? Or do you want to lock screen" ... *argh* and the user pushes the power button because he is annoyed of beeing spammed by options what to do!
Shutdown, Logout and Reboot ... thats all you need!
I use switch user, hibernate and sleep a lot.
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 5:39 am
by MadRat
I mostly use Switch User, Lock Screen, and Restart the most. Shutdowns for me happen when its raining.
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:35 pm
by Phalanx
MadRat wrote:I mostly use Switch User, Lock Screen, and Restart the most. Shutdowns for me happen when its raining.
Watch out before the hippies get onto you!
Shutdown???
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 5:46 pm
by Jaix
MadRat wrote:...Shutdowns for me happen when its raining.
I use an APC UPS so I don't use Shutdown, I can hardly spell it.
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:47 pm
by Elledan
IMO it's best to have both, but provide one by default. My vote is for making the fancy version the default.
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:10 pm
by dogua
The Message box of Linux / Ubuntu its the very best logon out for ReactOS
PS : Sory y a French... y little speak english
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:38 pm
by Blazkowicz
um, ok I understand about the "are you sure", it's dumb in general, that's me using classic logon so an accidental click on logoff in the start menu would suck.
what could be done would be the same basic window but with logoff, switch user, lock and cancel buttons. and another window for shutdown, reboot, sleep.
that's my taste in simplicity and integration with the classic look.
as for what I use, my personal PC is single user, autologon with tweakUI, the only feature I regularly use is shutdown (no noisy crap wasting electrity when not needed!). I use a freeware tabbed program launcher called Blanch, and have a shortcut to shutdown.exe /s /t 00 in that