shutdown compared ubuntu vs fedora

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 13:30 +0200, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> I used Mint Linux (ubuntu derivative) and loved it's shutdown button.
> 
> This looks to me much more user friendly than one we have on Fedora.
> 
> First buttons for shutdown, restart, sleep and log-off have icons -
> and fedora has only naked buttons.
> The screen dims when you click on shutdown - really nice effect.
> 
> This looks to me as standard Ubuntu button and not something ubuntu
> has made them selves so I was puzzled when I didn't see it in Fedora 7
> test 3 or 4.
> 
> Can you also include this - a much better version of shutdown button
> than one fedora currently uses.
> 
> It is much more usable, and user frendly - and it has logoff button
> integrated in it and not separate (as it should also be on fedora
> IMHO).
> 
> Please look at the video:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWuZvOAAE9c
> 

The logout dialog is one of the best-hated derivations from upstream 
that you can find in Ubuntu. Don't expect us to blindly follow them
where they err, just because it looks shiny.