On Monday, 23 May, 2011 10:13 PM, Ryan Peters wrote:
Before I say anything, let me state that I am not a developer or
designer of this project. From what I've read *from* the designers,
though, the decision was made for consistency's sake, not necessarily
saving energy. The menu has the same function that the power button
and closing the window list do: suspending. Shutting down, when you
think about it, is something that you rarely have to do (some people
don't shut down their desktops for long periods of time, while others
only shut them down once or twice per day). Compared to navigating a
program's GUI, switching workspaces/windows, and launching
applications, this is something that is rarely done, so, for the sake
of consistency, it would make sense to optimize towards a behavior
that, for most users, would be preferable when walking away
(suspending). The preferred way to shut down, which indicates that
you're done using the computer, is to log out first and use GDM (which
takes a few more seconds, but I can't think of a situation where you
have to shut down a computer faster that that).
Pressing the alt-button shows the Power Off button, logging out so that
you can shutdown requires more work and delay especially after work
where a quick shutdown is badly needed. That design decision again was
discussed in length and that is invalid, it works obviously to the
designer's laptops while the rest of the desktop world are suffering.
Regards,
Allan
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