Crippling Gnome-power-manager, Why!

[Jesse Keating]

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 23:08 -0600, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> Whoa, when did this happen?  At the moment, I still have a Shutdown
> option rather than suspend and I didn't see anything Gnome related in
> the update I just did (nothing obvious, at least).  I would have to
> agree with you; you should be able to shut down from the menu.  As
> Jeff notes, you cannot change kernels without rebooting (unless we get
> Xen really working...).  And as you note, suspend still uses some
> power and it is fairly likely that suspend or hibernate will not work
> properly on some (most?) systems.  I think the work on it is great and
> maybe one day things will all work well enough to rely on it, but why
> take away the nice Shutdown menu option?  I assume you could still do
> a CLI shutdown, but that requires root (Or does it?  man reboot seems
> to imply that users can use shutdown, halt, and reboot (when logged in
> locally).  I could test it, but that makes it difficult to finish this
> email...).  This is not something I wish to see come up hundreds or
> thosands of times on the Fedora users list... : ) 

Another (horrible) argument is that you can log out to GDM, and from GDM
shut down or reboot.  Again, horrible argument.

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