If 'confirm logout' in system settings/session manager is NOT checked then the logout button will cause the computer to shut down, regardless of what is checked under the 'default shutdown option' Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to log out without having to confirm 2. 3. Actual Results: Computer shuts down Expected Results: Logged out
Will be fixed in KDE 4.3: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191085
Fixed in the tree.