Re: [Ayatana] Session management in the dash

[anthropornis <anthropornis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Incidentally, I just upgraded to Oneiric today (and I do mean upgrade, not a fresh install), and perhaps I am doing something wrong, but I do not see a "restart" option in the power cog menu (nor do I see gnome-terminal in my Dash, but that's a different story). Furthermore, Ctrl+Alt+Del now seems limited to logging me out, rather than giving me additional options.  I finally had to try typing "restart" in the Dash, which was not intuitive. I was trying "reboot now" in the Alt+F2 dialog before that (and that failed, which sent me looking for gnome-terminal, to no avail).

I hope these feature regressions are just bugs.

Some people who like the idea of session management in the Dash have suggested moving the session items into an actual lens. That buries it even deeper in the Dash. The competing suggestion, to hard code it into the Dash regardless of which lens is selected, keeps the session items less buried, but certainly more cluttered. Whatever the pro-Dash camp does, I hope Canonical will restore the traditional methods, fully, as an alternative. It would be nice if the power cog menu even had an option for restarting Compiz.



On 10/11/2011 04:09 AM, Stefanos A. wrote:

I disagree, these actions (shutdown, restart, etc) *should* be available in the dash. This is something I've been waiting for since 11.04, ten months ago.

Why? Because winkey+"sh"+enter is an order of magnitude faster for me, compared to reaching for the mouse, clicking an icon, selecting a menu option and clicking a dialog button (all in different locations of the screen). I expect most heavy keyboard users will feel the same.

If you don't like typing "shutdown", feel free to not type "shutdown" and use the cog instead. That cog option is always there - there's absolutely no reason to remove the alternative dash option.