Why on the Earth GNOME Shell hiding Shutdown & Restart options

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On 05/25/2011 10:51 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> On Thu, 26 May 2011 02:26:18 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:
> 
>> Juan R. de Silva <juan.r.d.silva <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Could anybody explain it, why GNOME folks decided to hide the Shutdown
>>> and especially Restart buttons/options from a user so well? Is it
>>> especially dangerous to use them nowadays? Or GNOME folks assume people
>>> do not shutdown/restart their computers anymore?
>>
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643457
> 
> Thanks for the link. It was quite educational to glance.
> 
> IMHO a lot of talking about nothing. Just give users a choice and they 
> would figure out what is right for them: Suspend, Restart, Logout, 
> Shutdown. Isn't it that simple?
> 
> Looks like the most obstinate wing took it over in GNOME.
> 
> 

  Everyone I know is doing either (a)  stick with F14 for 6 months and
see if things improve by then .. or (b) try different DE (kde, lxde etc)
 ... or both of the above ...