On 05/26/2011 07:47 AM, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
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?
I haven't found a clear explanation but it seems to be designed around encouraging people to suspend. In any case, if you don't like this behaviour, I maintain a bunch of GNOME Shell Extensions in the Fedora repo (yum search gnome-shell-extensions -C) and one of them can help
# yum install gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu
Alt+F2, press r and enter to restart the shell. You should have a permanent power off item in the menu.
Rahul