On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 14:23 -0400, Yaakov Nemoy wrote: > On 9/17/07, Adam Jackson <ajackson@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
