Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 16:59 -0400, Jayson Rowe wrote: 
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Dokuro <dario.soto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Andre Robatino
> > <robatino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Aaron Konstam <akonstam <at> sbcglobal.net> writes:
> >>
> >>> I know that complaining with each successive version of Fedora gets
> >>> annoying. But would someone tell me why the developers insist on retains
> >>> the stupidity of having to hold down the alt key to get to the power off
> >>> option.
> >>>
> >>> It is certainly a stupid feature and it continues on with its stupidity.
> >>> Ok, now I can relax until the same feature appears in F18.
> >>
> >> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/GNOME-3-5-2-introduces-default-power-off-button-1614332.html
> >>
> >> so this should be in GNOME 3.6 which will be in F18.
> >>
> >
> > so 6 more months of this.. 5 or 4 with beta and alpha....
> >
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> This can be resolved w/ this extension:
> https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5/alternative-status-menu/
> 
> I use quite a few of the "Frippery" extensions.
> 
> -- 
> -jayson

That makes three obscure extensions you need to install to bring
"sanity" to Gnome.
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