Why on the Earth GNOME Shell hiding Shutdown & Restart options

[Juan R. de Silva]

On Thu, 26 May 2011 02:26:18 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:

> Juan R. de Silva <juan.r.d.silva <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643457

Thanks for the link. It was quite educational to glance.

IMHO a lot of talking about nothing. Just give users a choice and they 
would figure out what is right for them: Suspend, Restart, Logout, 
Shutdown. Isn't it that simple?

Looks like the most obstinate wing took it over in GNOME.