Why on the Earth GNOME Shell hiding Shutdown & Restart options

Chris Tyler chris at tylers.info
Thu May 26 12:05:27 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 20:13 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 05/25/2011 07:17 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> > Or GNOME folks assume people
> > do not shutdown/restart their computers anymore?
> 
> Many of us who use Linux on their desktops leave them running 24/7, only 
> rebooting for a kernel update.  If that's what the Gnome devs are doing 
> (as I do) they don't need to shutdown/restart on a regular basis, so of 
> course, nobody else does either.  Yes, I really do think they're that 
> out of touch.

And heaven forbid that you click "Reboot Later" after a kernel update
and then later try to find the reboot option! :-)

-Chris



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