Re: Shutdown and restart

["Allan E. Registos" <allan registos smpc steniel com ph>]

+1.


On Wednesday, 09 March, 2011 04:51 PM, Denis Washington wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After a long time of suspicion I finally tried GNOME Shell and must 
> say I really like what I see! However, there are still some gripes 
> that I have. I would like to address one particularly in this post: 
> the shell's offered shutdown options.
>
> Currently, it seems that the shell only offers "Suspend", with "Power 
> Off..." appearing when you hold down the Alt key. I find this to be 
> problematic for several reasons:
>
> 1. Suspending, while often practical, still drains power. Making it 
> appear as the sole shutdown action thus contributes to it being used 
> where a complete shutdown would have sufficed, wasting power and - 
> more importantly - ultimately hurting the environment (the "standby" 
> phenomena). This is especially true for desktops.
>
> 2. Directly related to the first point: the complete shutdown option 
> is completely undiscoverable by those who don't already know how to 
> find it, that is, those who have read the relevant GNOME developer 
> blog posts which mention it (which typical users don't do) or reading 
> it in the documentation (which typical users don't do). Even worse, 
> many not so computer-savyy users won't even know that something like a 
> "complete shutdown" even exists - there is only "Suspend" in the menu, 
> after all - which leads us directly back to (1).
>
> 3. Less important, but still quite bothering is the lack of an option 
> to restart the computer - even a hidden one. As the reality of Linux 
> home usage today is that of a multi-boot system, this seems like an 
> important omission. While the system can still be graphically rebooted 
> by logging out and then using the login manager to reboot, this seems 
> like a relatively tedious procedure for such a fairly common use case.
>
> Because of this, I propose the following changes:
>
> * Add a separate, always-visible "Shut Down..." button below "Suspend"
> * Add "Restart" as an option to the shutdown dialog
>
> This would have only minimal impact on the system menu's cleanness, 
> while substantially increasing the awareness and accessibility of a 
> complete shutdown option (thus helping to save power) and better 
> aligning to today's multi-boot reality.
>
> Best Regards,
> Denis Washington

> P.S.: While I am criticising this particular design discussion, I 
> would really like to let you know that I am impressed by the GNOME 
> Shell and the great work you have done to design and polish it - it 
> comes together nicely! Thank you for that! :)
Amen to that.
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