On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 14:18 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
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> 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.
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