Power Button change in functionality

Hervé Fache Herve at lucidia.net
Wed May 31 14:16:03 BST 2006


Seconded.

On 5/31/06, Who <mailforwho at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 5/31/06, Thom S <thom at murdercity.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > I've noticed that in Dapper, manually pressing the power button on the PC brings up the >shutdown/change user etc dialog, rather than initiating the shutdown procedure. What is the >reasoning behind this? I only ask as for me, when watching a film at night or whatever, its >quite nice to be able to simply press the power button, rather than fannying about with a >mouse/keyboard.
>
> I don't know if this is the 'official' reasoning, but I find it _much_
> safer. Before if you pushed the button by mistake it would still shut
> down - with no warning or confirmation
>
> I would like to be able to push the button twice for a full shutdown
> without any further confirmation
>
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