Re: GNOME 3.1.90 beta released!

[Evandro Giovanini <efgiovanini gmail com>]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 11:17 -0400, Dan Winship wrote:
>> On 09/01/2011 11:06 AM, Shaun McCance wrote:
>> > I just want to be clear for the docs. What is the behavior of
>> > each of these two buttons? And doing something on long-press
>> > is just the goal, but not actually implemented for 3.2?
>>
>> Long-press on power button immediately cuts power to the machine, and
>> will always do that, because that's hardcoded into the motherboard.
>
> See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657496
>
> I hope we get some hardware that's a bit more advanced than this 1990's
> behaviour in the future.
>
>

As someone misfortunate enough to have used a WM phone for a few
months I don't see what's so bad about the classic behaviour (for the
lucky ones that may be unaware, I basically had to manually remove the
battery every other week to recover from an OS crash).

Cheers,
Evandro