Hello, Before you dismiss this as another hate letter regarding GNOME 3, let me stop you. I like the new UI, I like it a lot. I support the decision to remove the minimize/maximize buttons from application title bars. I also enjoy the removal of those icons from the desktop. But despite all of these new and wonderful things, I have switched to KDE. Why? The System Settings. When I pick up a laptop, regardless of whether it uses Windows, Linux, or OS X, the first thing I do is modify the power settings. Why? Like a large portion of Linux users, my laptop uses a graphics card by NVIDIA(the company Mr. Torvalds told to F*** off) and I often experience complications with options like Hibernate and Suspend that usually result in the need to power cycle the computer to use it again. Furthermore, in the case of Windows and OS X, I hate it when my computer suspends because I closed the lid. I also hate it when my computer commences with a power operation after some predetermined amount of time, regardless of the fact that I may be playing music, watching a long video, copying hundreds gigabytes of data, uploading data, downloading a file or any of the other things I do on my computer that take some time. At one point in my life, I used my computer as an alarm clock, visiting onlineclock.net before I went to sleep and being awakened by its awful, but effective, alarm in the morning. Of course, I didn't want the screen on all night long, so I would set the screen timeout to 3 hours. While you may have already figured this out, when I press the power button, I want my computer to ask me what to do(you may provide this option in the settings, but I am not sure). I also want the same functionality available to me in the status menu(I know I can install an extension for this, but it is glitchy). I do not think these are difficult features to implement(Though I have no experience to back up my hypothesis.), rather I feel like they are options that were deemed useless. I think that in a settings dialog, few options are ever useless, and that the best aid to simplicity is good help available in the dialog. Lastly, these are quite truly feature requests, not bug reports. My computer is not totally unusable under GNOME, but the absence of these features and the benefits they provide has annoyed me in ways very few things can. -- さようなら, バージェス ジョナサン Sayonara, Burgess, Jonathan Burger King #5562 - P.O.S. Configuration Manager
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