Bug#785014: gnome-core: Standby button is far too hidden in power menu

George Bateman george.bateman16 at gmail.com
Mon May 11 15:22:09 UTC 2015


Package: gnome-core
Version: 1:3.14+3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

It is a design feature of the current Gnome power menu that
one must hold the "alt" key down to reveal the standby button. This is
daft. I'm aware that workarounds exist: laptop users can just close the
lid, and there are extensions that can be installed to add a standby
item to the menu. 

This is perfectly acceptable to power users who don't care about such
things and are happy to Google them, but for normal users, this isn't
acceptable. There is no hint in the interface that this is what you
should do, it feels unnatural, and it just wouldn't be done by Microsoft
or Apple.

Also, where is the hibernate button?

Please could these features be added visibly to the menu.

Thank you,

George Bateman.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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