Power off dialog box no longer shows restart

[Nathan Haines]

In the last promoted image, r179, the power off dialog displays three options:

* Power off
* Restart
* Cancel

In r197, the power off dialog no longer allows the user to restart the phone.

Restart should be added back to the power off dialog box.

Note: Not sure why this change was made, it was not a design request

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Desired resolution:

- revert this change to add the restart option back to the power off dialogue

- Note that when the phone is more stable we will eventually want to remove this option, however for now it should stay.

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

That's a conscious decision, rebooting your phone isn't something that you do in real life.

[Nathan Haines (nhaines)]

That's funny, because I actually do it about once a week, whereas I power off my phone maybe twice a year.

[juanjofm (juanjoyperla-2012)]

I use it too, and most people I know use it too...

[kevin gunn (kgunn72)]

fwiw, i liked it too... and though there's no button for it on "other phones", i do restart every now and then (virtual freezing/physical heating)

[Daniel d'Andrada (dandrader)]

This was discussed and agreed with Jouni during the RTM sprint

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Selene ToyKeeper (toykeeper)]

I'm hoping that the agreement was to re-add the restart feature, but I'm not 100% that's what the previous two comments meant.

Regardless, I've never had a cell phone which didn't need to be rebooted on a regular basis. We can't really expect ours to be any different.

[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

> Regardless, I've never had a cell phone which didn't need to be rebooted
> on a regular basis. We can't really expect ours to be any different.

And did those cellphones had a reboot option?

And, how is that reboot option fixing the issue of having to reboot your
phone?

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

How about showing the option only if the device is in developer mode? I'd like to think it's mainly relevant for unstable images or development in general.

[kevin gunn (kgunn72)]

OK, to be clear (from history of bug) design has stated to "re-enable" the restart feature for now for convenience of engineers & early users, knowing that at some point when we are stable we should again disable it.

note: fwiw, i've carried "another very popular phone" for years and its really reliable, but every blue moon there will be an issue...say running hot, bad app, frozen screen, whatever. when those moments occur, i am annoyed its a multistep process. besides, we're in a convergent world. computers have restart buttons, why not cell phones.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity8 - 8.00+14.10.20140918.3-0ubuntu1

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unity8 (8.00+14.10.20140918.3-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

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  * Dash: Fix issue when expanding a category and collapsing another one
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  * Make the categoryView invisible when we are in the preview mode (LP:
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  [ Ying-Chun Liu ]
  * Re-add restart button for power menu. (LP: 1358197) (LP: #1358197)

  [ Marcus Tomlinson ]
  * Don't show a preview if a null response is returned from
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  [ Michael Zanetti ]
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  [ Michael Terry ]
  * When running qmluitests, make sure that they use LANGUAGE=C, fixing
    a test failure when running locally in the US.

  [ Daniel d'Andrada ]
  * Some ApplicationWindow test improvements

  [ Rodney Dawes ]
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 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:26:42 +0000

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

As prefigured in this bug report, I have reported bug 1436458 on removing the Restart function.