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[Ian Santopietro <isantop@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I'll argue that the 60 sec timeout popups are better than the current two in
> one situation . If there's two entries Restart and Shut down , and each has
> its own timer it's possible to click on whatever you like to do and forget
> about it , whereas now you're obligated to make two clicks . Not to mention
> that it's way more intuitive to have restart as a separate entry and not put
> it as an unimportant addition . People do restarts after all.

If you're just going to forget about it, aren't you usually going to
be leaving the computer? A shutdown would be more apt in this case
anyway.

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:05, Petko <pditchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 02/27/2012 04:51 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>>
>> On 27 February 2012 08:06, Nekhelesh Ramananthan<krnekhelesh@xxxxxxxxx>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Reading through the replies from Mark Shuttleworth, Paul, Omar B., I
>>> propose
>>> the following solution.
>>>
>>> 1. Integrate Startup Applications into the gnome control center (removal
>>> from power cog menu)
>>> 2. Add an option to restart in the power cog menu.
>>> 3. The shutdown dialog should have a 60 second timeout which still brings
>>> about the "undo" functionality but also removes the need to confirm it
>>> again
>>> by just letting it countdown to zero.
>>> 4. Option to enable or disable login sound be presented in the sound
>>> settings dialog or under user accounts (so that each user can choose to
>>> disable or enable it)
>>
>> Would someone like to go ahead and open a bug against
>> gnome-control-center for #4, and for #1 against gnome-session to
>> request that it show in System Settings? I already opened
>> http://pad.lv/941697 for #3.
>>
>> Since as already been stated, adding a restart option to the system
>> menu would require an "are you sure"-style popup which is already
>> provided by the existing shut down dialog, I don't think that's
>> necessarily a useful improvement or has consensus.
>>
>> Jeremy Bicha
>>
> I'll argue that the 60 sec timeout popups are better than the current two in
> one situation . If there's two entries Restart and Shut down , and each has
> its own timer it's possible to click on whatever you like to do and forget
> about it , whereas now you're obligated to make two clicks . Not to mention
> that it's way more intuitive to have restart as a separate entry and not put
> it as an unimportant addition . People do restarts after all.
>
> Petko
>
>
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