Shutdown timer regression

[Richard]

Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04

In older (12.*) versions of Ubuntu, pressing the physical power button on a computer would popup a dialog box asking the user what to do, along with a timer counting down from 60 seconds. After the time elapsed, the computer would shutdown. This feature is now missing in 14.*. As a user who absolutely loved this feature, I consider this a regression.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that your bug report is not filed about a specific source package though, rather it is just filed against Ubuntu in general. It is important that bug reports be filed about source packages so that people interested in the package can find the bugs about it. You can find some hints about determining what package your bug might be about at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. You might also ask for help in the #ubuntu-bugs irc channel on Freenode.

To change the source package that this bug is filed about visit https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1335289/+editstatus and add the package name in the text box next to the word Package.

[This is an automated message. I apologize if it reached you inappropriately; please just reply to this message indicating so.]

[Richard (r-shadarack)]

Based on the FindRightPackage page, I believe the package is gnome-power-manager, although I am not certain of this.

[Murukesh Mohanan (murukesh)]

There was a change in the shutdown dialog introduced here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/6.12.0daily13.03.11-0ubuntu1, with the bug that brought about the change being https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1152374.

[Richard (r-shadarack)]

Thank you for pin-pointing exactly where this occurred. Should the package be changed to unity?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[TiloBunt (til0)]

same issue with still with 14.04.1

[AdamH (adam-sundew)]

I would love to have the 60 second "countdown" feature back (for logging out, shutting down or restarting). This has saved me on several occasions (e.g. when my KVM switch became unresponsive, the video display became corrupted, or a wireless keyboard/mouse lost the connection, etc - just push the power button and you knew the system would automatically shutdown in a minute's time).
This feature is available in other desktops still (e.g. KDE, Cinnamon), so it would be great to have it back in Unity too. Even if it was a "tick box" option somewhere in System Settings to turn it on (i.e. optional).
Many thanks.
Kind regards,
Adam.