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[Sebastien Bacher <seb128@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> the philosophy of open source developpment is all about freedom of
choice when it comes to UI and settings - so why restrict options users
had previously (and were happy to use) ?

it's rather to find a good balance between the number of options,choices
and the simplicity of use, I've no strong opinion on the shutdown on lid
close out of the fact that it seems an uncommon setting, GNOME3 took as
a position that laptop users want to suspend on lid close in 99% of the
case, we added the ui back because we think some people just close their
lid to walk between locations and don't want to go offline and stop
running processes during that time.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/880331

Title:
  Can no longer "shutdown" when laptop lid closes

Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  1. Ubuntu 11.10 kernel 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:50:42 UTC 2011 i686
  2. software-center 5.0.1.5 / power settings menu / gnome-power-manager 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
  3.expected to keep this option I had configured in Natty after upgrading to Oneiric
  4. after migrating to Oneiric, this feature (closing the lid shuts down the laptop) disappeared. There is no way to set it again inside the power settings menu of the software center, as this option does not appear anymore under the settings for the lid options. Nor is it possible to set it again via gconf-editor: apps-->gnome-power-manager-->buttons and set lid_ac and/or lid_battery to "shutdown" (when changed to "shutdown", it does not change the power manager behavior when the lid closes)-

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