On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 02:17 -0700, Scott Doty wrote: >> >> Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >The alternative was not having the Shut Down option at all, so be >> >careful what you wish for...=) >> >> I know you're kidding, sir, because such examples of false dichotomies >> are clearly logical fallacies...and we know those never appear on >> Fedora mailing lists... ;-) > > Well, not really. The Alt thing was added. For a few weeks before that, > you only had Suspend and Log Out. > >> Seriously, though: it doesn't do much good to exemplify "bold >> leadership" by proudly following Gnome off a cliff...because I >> strongly doubt the Fedora community will do likewise. > > What's the alternative, maintain long-term patches to a desktop despite > the fact that most of our desktop team are part of the upstream GNOME > development team? It's not likely. Well, one possible alternative would be to include by default (or loudly advertise) the Alternative Status Menu gnome-shell extension, which adds the "Power Off..." entry under Suspend. > > Fedora follows upstream. If you don't like what GNOME is doing, you can > always not use it: Fedora provides many other desktops. > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- > test mailing list > test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test > -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
