#6014 HIGH Update.: Laptop shutdown should send dbus message to all open applications

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#6014: Laptop shutdown should send dbus message to all open applications
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 Reporter:  michael.tiemann                               |       Owner:  Collabora
     Type:  defect                                        |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  high                                          |   Milestone:  Update.1 
Component:  dbus-python                                   |     Version:  Build 653
 Keywords:  text editor, abiword, shutdown, lost changes  |    Verified:  0        
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 My daughter was using her XO on a long trip and typing pages of a story
 into the text editor activity.  After a while she decided to rest, and she
 shutdown the computer as we did not have car adaptor to keep the XO
 plugged in.  When she rebooted some time later, she observed that her
 changes from the last session were all lost.

 I understand that if she had closed the activities first, before issuing a
 shutdown command, the activities would have prompted her to save her work.
 The system-wide shutdown should cause the various activities to run their
 shutdown processes, which would then prompt for saves and avoid lost work.
 I understand that sending a dbus message would accomplish this.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6014>
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