Drop splash screens in 4.14?

[Guido Berhoerster]

* Simon Steinbeiß <simon at xfce.org> [2015-03-09 09:41]:
> On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 21:38:46 +0100
> Nick Schermer <nick at xfce.org> wrote:
> 
> > Assuming we want to keep the logout dialog [full screen snap/opacity
> > window with transient dialog without decorations], we can use the same
> > code for a simple splash for those who want this.
> 
> That is true. However there have been complaints/issues about this fullscreen overlay/grab in the past (we didn't tackle those for 4.12):
> https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10581
> 
> So maybe we should rethink the logout dialog for 4.14, not sure.

I don't think it is so much of a logout dialog problem but rather
the lack of a polkit authentication agent integrated with
xfce4-session. There are other problems, e.g. if suspend/resume
requires authentication the screen is locked before the polkit
agent comes up.
Making the logout dialog non-modal would have been a quick
workaround for 4.12 for the above case but it doesn't actually
address the underlying issue and there might not be any need to
redesign it once that is addressed.
-- 
Guido Berhoerster