[Mageia-dev] Shutdown button by default in Mageia 2 Gnome request

Wed Mar 28 21:07:14 CEST 2012

Hi
+
+Gnome 3.4 was released today :), and the Mageia 2 release candidate is 
+meant to be on the 10th April.  However I have a little request that I 
+hope will be taken seriously. That is for the shut down button to show 
+by default in Gnome 3.4 in Mageia 2.
+
+As far as I know it isn't at the moment, I haven't tried Gnome Shell in 
+Cauldron just yet, since when I tried to before with Alpha 1 and 2 
+issues with XFdrake and trying to get my proprietary Nivida driver 
+installed.
+
+Anyway going back on topic I strongly believe that Mageia 2's Gnome 
+Shell should be showing the shut down button by default, even though 
+like Olav and I assume Bkor as well, I would like Mageia's Gnome to stay 
+rather close to upstream by default at the moment.
+
+However it won't be using the default theme by default, in fact it will 
+be using a port of the KDE theme, and so I don't think having the shut 
+down button by default will be a problem as such.
+
+Quite a lot of people still want to shut down their computer instead of 
+suspend or leaving it on most/all of the time, and I am one of them.  
+There was also a 60+ year old at my LUG, that I went to for a first time 
+last Saturday, who was using Fedora on a lap top, who wanted to use the 
+shut down button.  He told me how when he was new to Fedora it took him 
+quite a long time to find out how to shut down.
+
+There was quite a lot of stuff before on the web about how it wasn't 
+good to have to press tab for the shut down button to show in the menu.  
+Personally I don't mind doing that as such, but I know that many other 
+people will.
+
+Apparently Debian have the shut down button showing in Gnome Shell.  Not 
+sure about OpenSuse, but it wouldn't surprise me if they do as well.  As 
+for Fedora they stay very close to upstream with Gnome, so of course 
+it's not there by default. Fedora is also aimed at in general slightly 
+more technical users  than what Ubuntu is aimed at for example or in my 
+opinion anyway. As for Mageia we should have the distro aimed at 
+everyone, from brand new users to Desktop Linux, to 
+opensource/freesoftware experts, as a result the shut down button should 
+indeed be showing by default in the menu.
+
+Apparently the extensions need re creating for Gnome 3.4 or something, 
+well ok, but well please let's have the shut down button showing in the 
+menu by default in Mageia 2.
+
+I can imagine a lot of new users being given Mageia on a Live CD to try 
+out, and trying out the Gnome version, then coming back to the person 
+saying something like,  "yeah Mageia Gnome was good, but I had 
+absolutely no idea how to shut it down when I tried it".  I also think 
+it would be a bit bad to say to these users something like "With the 
+Gnome Shell interface in Mageia 2 the developers of it decided to remove 
+the shut down button by default, so if you want to shut down you have to 
+press tab, to get it to show".
+
+ From Sebastian sebsebseb
+
+