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

Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Axel Dörfler schrieb:
> > Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >> What about just "Quit", "Quit Haiku" or "Quit Session"?
> > Quit wouldn't be quite right, as you don't just quit the Deskbar,
> > but
> > are about to shut down the system.
> I don't agree. Who even knows this is the "Deskbar"? It's that thing
> that you control Haiku with, not an application which you can quit,
> same
> as "Tracker". Both of these are "the Desktop", ie synonymous to
> "Haiku"
> for the purpose of this discussion.

Okay, granted, though I still think we shouldn't reuse Quit for this.

> > I think I would just call the menu "Shutdown" for now and the
> > submenus
> > "Power Off", and "Restart System".
> Sounds ok, too. Only problem is that Haiku mostly doesn't actually
> "power off".

Hehe, you think we should be honest here and say "Try to Power Off"? ;-
)
But you have a point there - at least as long as we don't actually
power off by default, a different name wouldn't be too bad.

> How about someone with commit access actually makes this change now?
> Just look at src/bin/shutdown for how to send the Registrar a message
> telling it not to display the confirmation alert. Changing the menu
> items is about another 5 minutes work including testing.

Yes please.

Bye,
   Axel.

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