Unable to set "When the Power Button is pressed" to Ask or Interactive

Bug #1769614 reported by Norbert
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Invalid
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Bug Description

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install Ubuntu 18.04 on real hardware (since there is a some bug 1769372 VirtualBox)
2. Login to session
3. Open GNOME Control Center, Power (or simply `gnome-control-center power`)
4. Try to set "When the Power Button is pressed" to Ask or Interactive

Expected results:
there is an option to Ask user (or Interactive) dialog

Actual results:
there is no option to Ask user (or Interactive) dialog

Workaround:
set such option from terminal with `gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power power-button-action interactive` (it will work, but will not be shown in `gnome-control-center power`)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon May 7 13:10:19 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-06 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Norbert (nrbrtx) wrote :
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

The Power Off option in that drop down **is** the 'interactive' gsettings setting. I believe that is an intentional decision by the gnome-control-center maintainers to use that for Power Off.

See this upstream report:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/merge_requests/39

In the Ubuntu session, "Power Off" (interactive) is the default in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

I'm closing this bug since this is a bit of a design decision and should be handled upstream if changes need to be made.

One thing you could do though is have the gnome-user-docs user help explain what "Power Off" does. (It does the same thing as the power button in the system status menu in the top right of GNOME Shell.)

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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