Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

[Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan]

Aaron Konstam cried out:

> I know that complaining with each successive version of Fedora gets  
> annoying. But would someone tell me why the developers insist on  
> retains the stupidity of having to hold down the alt key to get to  
> the power off option.

That behavior is a feature of the Gnome shell, rather than of Fedora  
as such.  Attributing it to Fedora is equivalent to attributing the  
behavior of bash to Fedora.

Unless you are prepared to argue for Fedora ceasing to provide the  
Gnome shell as its default shell -- which cessation I think would be a  
very fine idea -- you are objecting in the wrong place.  You need to  
address your otherwise legitimate complaint to the developers of the  
Gnome shell.

However, don't expect them to pay much attention.  Shell 3.x was  
developed with the explicit notion that users had been doing things  
wrong, rather than in service to how users plainly wanted to do things.

The Gnome shell is highly configurable, and kind souls have provided  
configuration patches to change this particular behavior, albeit that  
subsequent Gnome development tends to break configuration patches.

I suggest that you investigate some of the other shells.