Battery icon defaults

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 4/19/06, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> There would also be a disadvantage of this: we'd lose the ability to
> right click and sleep/hibernate. But then again, in my opinion no one
> will use this, because (a) it's such a strange place to put such an
> ability, that very few people will find it, (b) we have the logout
> applet on panels by default, which people can use for fast logout
> dialogue access, and (c) most people use their function keys anyway, to
> sleep/hibernate, unless they don't have these.

Actually I tend to use the right-click on that icon as my main way to
hibernate the laptop (when it worked...it currently doesn't in Dapper
for my laptop).  For suspend, I simply close the lid.  I rarely use
the function keys to do a suspend/hibernate since I find it awkward to
find the function keys on this small keyboard instead of a mouse click
action.  I also find that that right-click on g-p-m  is quicker than
clicking on the logout icon, waiting for that window to appear, then
finding the hibernate/suspend menu from that logout menu.

All this is not a strong opinion about one way over the other (and I
will adjust to whatever is the final way), but I do use the
right-click g-p-m options with the current Dapper.

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Daniel Robitaille