> It lets you decide which option to display in on the Power button. So in > this case, it is more customisable. So in this case, the power button in the > Start Menu is not random. By default, it is set to "Shutdown", but you can > change it to "Lock", "Hibernate", or "Sleep". I know this much because I > used to use Windows 7 before I chose to switch completely to Ubuntu. Windows > 7 does display an options to "Wait for programs to quit" or "Restart > anyway". But does not allow other programs like Openoffice.org/Libreoffice > to ask you if you want to save changes. Windows automatically tries to quit > all programs when the option to wait or restart anyway are shown. But back > on topic. What you said towards the end is completely what I was saying, so > it does not make any sense to me that you are re-stating that. What I said > was that people DO expect the computer to shut down WITHOUT the confirmation > step. If people just hit the power off option in Ubuntu and walk away, the > computer will not shut down at all. It will just sit there with the > confirmation window open. Thanks!!!
But here's the difference I'm getting at: in Windows, the behaviour changes. Sometimes there's a confirmation, sometimes (more often) there isn't. That causes problems. In Ubuntu, the behaviour does not change: there is _always_ a confirmation, so users become accustomed to that happening. Dylan -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
