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[Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28/02/12 18:54, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> John Lea chose Displays, Startup Applications, and Printing as his 
> guess of which panels were most used, and I didn't feel like debating 
> that.

Which settings elements do you think are most used from System Settings? 
Do we have, or could we quickly get, data on that? We'll promote the 
three most-used or most-quickly-needed-when-needed items into the menu.

> > > 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.
> > Agreed, that's not happening. Restart is an option in the shutdown
> > dialog, which is perfectly reasonable.
> >
> > The 60 second story is pending some word from MPT, too.
>
> The shutdown and logout dialogs (and the restart dialog, when it was
> separate) used to have a 60-second countdown. We dropped it because it
> is wrong to assume that the computer will shut down or log out by
> itself once the countdown reaches zero.

OK, that settles the point.

Mark