[haiku-development] Re: The ways of Reboot. Acknowledge or not?

On 2009-04-25 at 17:36:26 [+0200], Gerald Zajac <zajacg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> I like the current implementation as it is where the user must confirm 
> that he/she does want to reboot or shutdown.  Probably only developers 
> will be rebooting so often that they might find the reboot confirmation 
> annoying.  In that case, maybe there should be a way for them to disable 
> the confirmation dialog box.  However, the average user will reboot so 
> infrequently that I strongly doubt that the confirmation will cause any 
> annoyance for them.
> 
> BTW, although I reboot frequently, I do not find the reboot confirmation 
> annoying.

As a perhaps interesting side note: Ubuntu 8.10 had the instant 
reboot/shutdown/suspend/log out right at the top/right screen corner! In 
9.04 there is now a confirmation dialog again. So they tried the BeOS way 
and reverted. Too many negative user feedback?

Another side note: I have accidentally used the wrong option in both Ubuntu 
8.10 and BeOS back in the days. In BeOS, things were especially tricky, 
since with FFM set to "Warping", my mouse cursor would usually warp 
directly onto the "Restart" menu item when I opened the Be menu! Ok, that 
last bit is not a problem on Haiku anyways, and I really wonder why I even 
saw it on BeOS. An interference with "DeskbAct", the tool that would 
auto-raise my Deskbar?

Best regards,
-Stephan

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