[341] in athena10
Re: Athena 10 branding and gdm-config
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Tue Jul 29 12:05:48 2008
Message-Id: <200807291605.m6TG53rJ032647@pothole.mit.edu>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, athena10@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:20:52 EDT."
<200807282220.m6SMKq9T025932@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:05:03 -0400
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
> Given that it's currently possible to reboot with Ctrl-Alt-F1
> Ctrl-Alt-Del I'm not sure how much value there is in removing halt and
> reboot. Yeah, they're more user accessible if they're in menus on the
> login screen, but is that a problem? a feature?
I think it's a problem for cluster machine serial reusability, though a
fairly minor one. I'm not worried about the users who know what they're
doing (anyone who uses the Ctrl-Alt-F1, Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence clearly has
a very specific goal), moreso the nontrivial minority who are prone to
doing things like using the power switch as a logout button, and who
might think (not really unreasonably!) that if there's this shutdown
button *right* *there*, maybe they should use it when they're done with
the machine.
As for how to implement it, I'm in favor of the mail Greg just sent about
forking gdm-config.
For the cluster configuration in particular, how about just adding any
additional neceesary hacks as diverted files in debathena-cluster
package? The usual arguments for keeping them separately packaged
wouldn't seem to apply.
