Jaunty: Leave

[marc]

Myriam Schweingruber said...
> 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.

Aaarrrgghhh! I've been looking for that for two weeks!

Thanks for finding it at last.

> The danger is that many people will just try clicking on it, and then
> the computer indeed shuts down. Not exactly great usability IMHO.

I concur. The whole thing is rubbish. 

Anyway, at last I can ditch the Battery Monitor widget that had no other 
use than allowing me to suspend.

-- 
Cheers,
Marc