Comment # 6 on bug 993381 from Dominique Leuenberger

(In reply to Ludwig Nussel from comment #5)
> Is there an executive summary? :-) I would like to have the option of the
> power button to shut down back please. Other DEs at least display a dialog
> asking what to do. The default action of gnome right now just crashes my
> system (which is another bug).

Exec summary would have been: shutting down on just the push of a button is too
high a risk for data loss (there is no loss on supsend/hibernate - it should
not crash though :P )

that said: SLE seems to have some weird request like yours too (and somebody
asking to get the power button back to shut down the machine) and patched g-s-d
for this purpose

For the record: I don't think this is any sensible option one should ever
configure his power button to do. 

Anyway, fix incoming (via SLE channel)