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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.