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  1. Bug #346907
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 346907

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Craig Huffstetler (xq) wrote : Re: [jaunty] Shutdown, Restart, Etc. (Leave Functions) Not Found on "System" Sub-Menu

I don't feel that is on topic with the usability bug at hand. We are talking about a GUI aspect of the "System" menu (found beside: Applications, Places...) in Gnome Window Manager.

People can always forcefully reboot using CTRL + ALT + DEL, or shutdown using:
shutdown -h
halt
poweroff
Or even reboot using:
reboot

But, again, we are trying to make this user friendly and usability sane. Why make someone go to a terminal to reboot? Or tap ALT + F2 and type in a command? Or to put the shutdown/reboot/logout commands back on their SYSTEM menu (what this thread is about) REMOVE the Fast User Switcher Applet from the far right which comes in Gnome by default?

Again, we compared this to "removing life vests from a small ship" or on a larger scale "removing life boats and life vests and all hopes of being rescued from a larger vessel" then guess what -- the rescue boat magically appears out of thin air when you remove the life vests, etc.

Because this is the concept: How would a user know to remove the life vests in a sinking vessel and a rescue boat appears?

In this case how does the user know to remove the Fast User Switcher Applet and then the Shutdown/Reboot/Logout functions appear normally in the System menu again? It makes absolutely no sense (in any, well, sense of the word).