Jaunty: Leave

Alan Dacey GrokIt at ajinfosearch.com
Sat Apr 18 01:44:59 UTC 2009


Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 23:33, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> Hi marc,
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 23:12, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:
>>> On Jaunty's "Leave" dialogue, the "Turn off computer" option has a
>>> downward arrow, indicating further options. Is this the case, if so, how
>>> do you get to them?
>> This is indeed strange, I guess it must be an error. I can't imagine
>> what additional option one has which was not already covered by the
>> menu. Maybe an artifact?
> 
> I spoke too fast. Did you click on it without letting go? It will show
> you the option to choose between 'Suspend to Disk or 'Suspend to RAM'.
> I guess this is sort of a "last chance" option before shutting down if
> one indeed only wanted to go for a suspend mode.
> 
> The danger is that many people will just try clicking on it, and then
> the computer indeed shuts down. Not exactly great usability IMHO.
> 
> 
> Regards, Myriam.
> 
So that's how it works!  I got to it by accident one time and did not know how 
to repeat it.  I'll try it when I shut down for the night.  Thanks!

I think the arrow really should have a regular click action.

Alan




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