[Bug 33820] Re: Pressing power button displays dialog, it does not switch off computer

[José M. López-Cepero]

I repeat my comments in bug #35141:

This is, IMHO, a counterintuitive behaviour. Just consider _any_ of the electrical gear in your household, say your TV. You click On/Off, it powers up. You click On/Off again, it powers down, just that. Your TV does not show an on screen menu which forces you to go get the remote (note that the keyboard/mouse are not always that close to the CPU) just to confirm that yes, you really wanted to power it off.

There is absolutely no point in forcing the user to reach the keyboard/mouse to confirm the action. If one wanted to do this, one would select LogOut directly from the menu, which is just two clicks away. This change in behavior renders the power-off button rather useless.

Please return the physical power button to its old, pre-Dapper status: pressing it powers-down the PC. Or, even better, add an option in the energy settings dialog which allows one to choose whether to hibernate, restart or shutdown (or to choose each time). 
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Pressing power button displays dialog, it does not switch off computer
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/33820