Comment 9 for bug 1403293

My intent, in reporting this bug, is not to find a work-around for me specifically, but is to propose a default behavior for the masses. We want to maximize the user-friendliness to a brand new user of Ubuntu Unity, without harming the work-flow of a seasoned professional.

This proposal is intended as a usability completeness, in keeping with the goal of achieving tasks via the Unity Dash.

The designers of the Unity Dash, have taken great effort to allow new users (and old) to achieve numerous tasks by hitting the super key and typing a short phrase. They've designed several scopes allowing a user find almost anything on their computer (and even scopes that search for things on the internet).

So, it seems unusual to me, that (out of all the things you can do with the dash) you cannot search and find such fundamental task as : logout, reboot, suspend, or shutdown.

I'm proposing additions to the *default* dash lookup scope, that not only make these tasks available (via the dash), but also activate the corresponding alias-phrases mentioned previously:

  - Reboot ("restart" is another good alias for this)
  - Shutdown (other intuitive aliases: "shut down", "turn off")
  - logout (aliases: "log out", "log off" and "logoff")
  - suspend/hibernate