[Trac #692] Shutdown notification

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#692: Shutdown notification
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 Reporter:  marco             |        Owner:  Eben     
     Type:  defect            |       Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal            |    Milestone:  Untriaged
Component:  interface-design  |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:                    |  
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Old description:

> Right now, when you press the shutdown button, the system appear to be
> idle for a few seconds, then we switch to text mode and actually shutdown
> after some time. There are a few ideas about it, but we should settle
> them down. We need to implement something for btest-2.
>
> Possible approaches:
>
> * Chris was proposing a dialog with the shutdown symbols (I guess
> something like the OS X one?)
> * Dan was proposing to take a screenshot of the screen, grey it out (not
> sure about the exact effect) and put a shutdown symbol on it.
> * Another idea might be to switch back to the Home view, grey it out, and
> show a shutdown symbol instead of the donut.
>
> Regardless of the exact effect I think these should probably apply:
>
> * We should never switch to text mode (I'm not really sure if this is
> possible at all, but from an user point of view...)
> * There should ideally be some sort of animation to indicate that the
> system is not stalled (currently the system takes a while to shutdown)
>
> Eben, what do you think?

New description:

 Right now, when you press the shutdown button, the system appear to be
 idle for a few seconds, then we switch to text mode and actually shutdown
 after some time. There are a few ideas about it, but we should settle them
 down. We need to implement something for btest-2.

 Possible approaches:

  * Chris was proposing a dialog with the shutdown symbols (I guess
 something like the OS X one?)
  * Dan was proposing to take a screenshot of the screen, grey it out (not
 sure about the exact effect) and put a shutdown symbol on it.
  * Another idea might be to switch back to the Home view, grey it out, and
 show a shutdown symbol instead of the donut.

 Regardless of the exact effect I think these should probably apply:

  * We should never switch to text mode (I'm not really sure if this is
 possible at all, but from an user point of view...)
  * There should ideally be some sort of animation to indicate that the
 system is not stalled (currently the system takes a while to shutdown)

 Eben, what do you think?

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