"Restart" function is no longer needed

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

1. Hold down the power button.

What you see: "Power Off", "Restart", and "Cancel" controls.

What you should see: "Power Off" and "Cancel" only.

As noted in bug 1358197, the "Restart" function was always intended to be temporary, to be removed once the phone software was stable.

Removing it would be one way of fixing bug 1412780, and would invalidate bug 1377146.

[Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)]

How is this in terms of convergence? Will Ubuntu Desktop not have a restart option any more either? Removing that option from unity8 will also remove it for the desktop - unless we treat it special. But then in theory unity8 shouldn't even care about whether it's a desktop or a phone or a tablet and right now doesn't have that information either.

[Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)]

This bug report even suggests to add "Reboot to bootloader" when the device is in developer mode: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ux/+bug/1434142

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Many things will be different between PC and phone, in ways that aren't even decided yet. We don't know yet, for example, whether phones will have multiple user accounts and therefore have a logout function. So it is not reasonable, at this stage, to expect things to be designed for PC as a prerequisite for changing them on the phone. Unity 8 is shipping on phones to customers right now.

Whether a "Restart Into Bootloader" function exists in Developer Mode does not affect whether a vanilla Restart function should exist.