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Re: [opensuse-gnome] alt-status-menu as default?
- From: Atri <badshah400@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:46:17 +0530
- Message-id: <1319264177.28930.30.camel@linux-badshah.site>
Hi!
On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 14:47 +0100, Richard Brown wrote:
There's no easy way to shutdown, but for me more importantly (on an old
fashioned desktop :) ) from GNOME 3.2 there is *absolutely no GUI way to
hibernate*, easy or difficult [1]! Adding the alt-status-menu extension
at least gives me one, albeit not-so-easy, way by pressing Alt and
clicking on Suspend. With all due respect for upstream developers and UI
designers, I have to nonetheless emphasise that hibernate is very
important for me and I think for many more. Sure one could go ahead and
install the extension separately, but is that really some requirement we
want to dump on the unsuspecting user ;) ?
I agree that we should install the extension by default on all
computers. Users who would rather stick to the "thou shalt not
hibernate" route chosen by upstream (and I think it would be a fair
guess to say that there would only be a minority of them) could still
individually disable the extension.
Any proper website based extension installation system (such as the
eagerly awaited extensions.gnome.org) should be able to determine if you
already have an extension installed system-wide and give you the option
to disable it on your account.
Bye.
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Atri
[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649193
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On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 14:47 +0100, Richard Brown wrote:
Hi All,
Atri/badshah400 and others have been helping but this is proving to be rather
difficult, with dirty hacks or purposefully causing package conflicts being
the only two 'solutions' which should work, neither of which are any good.
Furthermore, GNOME 3.2 has changed the situation - the power button's default
behaviour is now to suspend, and unlike in gnome 3.0 there is no
user-accessible way for this change.
This means we are heading towards a 12.1 release with no easy way for our
GNOME 3.2 users to shutdown or hibernate their machine.
There's no easy way to shutdown, but for me more importantly (on an old
fashioned desktop :) ) from GNOME 3.2 there is *absolutely no GUI way to
hibernate*, easy or difficult [1]! Adding the alt-status-menu extension
at least gives me one, albeit not-so-easy, way by pressing Alt and
clicking on Suspend. With all due respect for upstream developers and UI
designers, I have to nonetheless emphasise that hibernate is very
important for me and I think for many more. Sure one could go ahead and
install the extension separately, but is that really some requirement we
want to dump on the unsuspecting user ;) ?
I therefore propose adding gnome-shell-extension-alt-status-menu to our
default patterns
I agree that we should install the extension by default on all
computers. Users who would rather stick to the "thou shalt not
hibernate" route chosen by upstream (and I think it would be a fair
guess to say that there would only be a minority of them) could still
individually disable the extension.
Any proper website based extension installation system (such as the
eagerly awaited extensions.gnome.org) should be able to determine if you
already have an extension installed system-wide and give you the option
to disable it on your account.
Bye.
--
Atri
[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649193
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