On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 14:18 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: <snip>
I agree with you that Gnome2 is dead but someone has to explain why
a
feature like holding the ALT key is necessary to power off in the
User
Menu. It seems to me there was room in the original list for a Power
off
option.
I think that there is general agreement among the majority of F15
users
other than the Gnome developers that there are aspects of Gnome3
that
are just plain screwy.
This is definitely not one of those things that should exist. Maybe the team feels that a new user would not understand what 'power off' means. I would find that insulting as a new Linux user coming from the other world. I think this is the wrong way to deal with this. I have not had the time to look at Gnome3 yet, but this makes me less likely to do so from an engineering/quality assurance/user experience view point. BTW, do they have a 'do you really want to do this' dialog or does Gnome3 go immediately into power down mode?
You have the usual dialog about what you really want too do.