[Bug 337775] Re: no "usability sane" way to reboot jaunty without mouse

[Kent Borg]

Another vote for this being a mistake.

I have a notebook computer.  This means:

 1. I have limited screen real estate.  
 2. I seldom quit or logout, I nearly always suspend to RAM.

The menubar is *very* privileged territory.  To require a special power
button thingie up there, little as it is, is an imposition.  Menus, on
the other hand, are a very efficient use of space.  Having a quit in the
System menu is very clean choice.  Unlike, say, looking at the time,
quitting is a rare operation.  It should not be a required always-there
feature.

On a notebook having a battery state indication is valuable, and having
it double as a menu for suspending works great.  For those rare times I
actually want to quit, a more general purpose menu is a perfect place to
go.

Then again, I can't be trusted.  I think button bars are stupid, too.
(Why do people hate menus so much?  They are compact and organized, and
for frequent operations they can have nicely self-documenting keyboard
equivalents.  Why should infrequent operations get dedicated full-time
screen space?  Can this stupud idea finally go out of style?)


Thanks,

-kb, the quiet and unassuming Kent with no opinions.

P.S.  Is there a way to hack this back in until it gets fixed?

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