On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 00:18 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Evandro Giovanini > <efgiovanini gmail com> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote: > >> 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). > > On my laptop, I encounter enough hard lockups while testing software > that the long-press behaviour of the power button is essential for me. > I don't want to have to flip my machine over and take out the battery > everytime. For all I know, doing that repeatedly might even damage the > device. In the worst case, you still can use the Magic SysRq key. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key -- Germán Póo-Caamaño http://people.gnome.org/~gpoo/
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