On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 02:31:48PM -0200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8 Dec, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Manu Cornet wrote: > >... > >>--------------------- > >> Sleep > >> Hibernate > >> Restart > >> Shut Down > >>--------------------- > >> Lock Screen > >> Switch Account... > >> Log Out > > > >Do you think we should have so many items in the System menu ? > > There would be 13 items altogether, which is a bit long, though not > awful. Three pie-in-the-sky ways of shortening the menu: > 1. moving "Help" and "About" to a separate "Help" menu (easy, but the > help isn't useful enough to warrant its own menu at the moment); > > >This is the way Mac OS X does it, but it has much fewer items (doesn't > >have Hibernate, > > 2. merging "Sleep" and "Hibernate" into a single command like newer > versions of Mac OS X do, so "Sleep" suspends both to RAM and to > disk (difficult); > 3. merging "Preferences" and "Administration", once enough applets > have merged that such a combined menu would be sane (very > difficult). >
4. Move Sleep, Hibernate, Restart and Shut Down to a Power menu. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop