On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 14:23 -0400, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
On 9/17/07, Adam Jackson ajackson@redhat.com wrote:
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 13:18 +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
Not sure if this is the relevant list, but...is there any possibility of F8 having a graphical shutdown? Perhaps even just a non-verbose shutdown mode? It's just my humble opinion, but I find it looks ugly and breaks the experience a bit...
We (Red Hat) haven't looked into that yet. It's certainly a fine idea though.
My mental model of this is that the X session just stays up until the computer actually halts, since it's not like the X server maintains any state that needs to get flushed to disk. You might terminate all the other clients besides the session leader, and then throw up some animation so the user knows things are happening.
But that's just a guess. It would take some design first to make sure we think through the interactions. At this stage of F8 it might be too late to fold this in before release, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't work on it.
What about going down into and coming back from hibernate?
What about it? That's a different path. Hibernate doesn't terminate processes at all.
If you mean "can we have a pretty hibernate too", then I suspect the answer is "that's hard to make X do until we have kernel modesetting".
- ajax