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

  • From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:32:26 +0200

On 2009-04-25 at 18:30:09 [+0200], Adrien <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Corners should be reserved to very important things you access often. A 
> reboot butoon shouldn't be there at all. It's the perfect place for a 
> main menu.

I just wrote that to remind that the feature was very easy to reach in 
Ubuntu 8.10, to put it better into context that they reverted to a 
confirmation dialog in 9.04.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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