Eric van Horssen wrote:
Jay Vaughan wrote:
i guess i know what you're thinking of: making the power button
something which
messes up semantics.
i believe that any computer must be turned on or off, and that this
function is distinct from actual use. i don't think merging
functionality into the power button is doing anything but en-bloating
a very, very primal function of the system.
I'm sorry Jay but you must have missed something in the computerworld...
ever since I changed my AT motherboard for an ATX, the powerbutton got
a new function.
Or if I want the old function, I have to press it for 4 seconds?
And that's not only computers. My Nokia Phone (very un-smart just phone
brick) also has multiple functions on the 'power putton'.
Pressing the button is used for changing profiles or silence the phone.
Pressing it for serval seconds does a poweroff.
And this phone has dozends of buttons, not only two...
Still I agree with you and I, as a palm user, feel much the same as
Shawn. Why do I need to close an app?
I think this question leads to something...
Question is. Can we do this with standard Linux apps without breaking
anything?
