Gnome 3 ~ Windows 8?

[James McKenzie]

On 7/15/11 6:31 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 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.
You know I expected that...

James