Why on the Earth GNOME Shell hiding Shutdown & Restart options

[John Mellor]

On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 20:06 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> What? You pull down the user menu, click "shutdown," and a box opens
> which 
> offers suspend-restart-cancel-shutdown buttons. How hidden is that?
> 
Huh?  What non-standard modification are you running to get a "shutdown"
selection on the user menu without hitting the Alt key?  Out of the box,
F15 does not have that behaviour.