#8116 NORM 9.1.0: Single press of shutdown button should bring up a Shutdown dialog

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#8116: Single press of shutdown button should bring up a Shutdown dialog
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   Reporter:  HoboPrimate       |       Owner:  Eben         
       Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new          
   Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  9.1.0        
  Component:  interface-design  |     Version:  not specified
 Resolution:                    |    Keywords:               
Next_action:  never set         |    Verified:  0            
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Comment(by HoboPrimate):

 Hm, 1st reason, was that I didn't know that a single press of the shutdown
 button suspended the laptop (I have a B4, which doesn't support recent
 suspend features), so my thinking was based on the "fact" that this key-
 press was being unused.

 The 2nd reason I thought of this was to make shutting down the laptop as
 easy as possible, because of power-saving concerns, and some use-cases.
 Hopefully, boot time and shutdown time will become faster in the future,
 and with activities saving themselves on shutdown as they currently do, I
 imagine that a kid turning off (shutdown) and turning on (boot up) their
 laptop would be a common thing, so as to save power whenever it will be
 unused for a period of time. One use case I can imagine for the need to
 have this be done quickly and easily, would be a kid using his XO on a
 bus, and shutting it down quickly when his stop arrives. A bit too
 specific and perhaps even unrealistic in some places where the XO's are
 being deployed, but there are many other occasions where a kid will want
 to turn off the machine when he doesn't to use it for a while.

 The 3nd reason I thought of this, was because of the travel one has to do
 to shutdown cleanly the laptop: Go to home view, switch to ring view if
 you have it in list view, hover or right-click XO kid, choose Shutdown.
 Perhaps if you adopt that idea we bounced around on IRC of having a laptop
 icon on the frame which would have shutdown as one of its options, then it
 would be faster.

 As far as using the power button to suspend, I wonder if closing the
 laptop itself would be a better suitor for suspend (as in, a kid closes
 his laptop to make a short travel, and opens it to continue work.
 Invisibly, the laptop suspends in between, saving precious battery power).
 I don't think it will be intuitive to the user that by pressing once on
 the power button you are effectively suspending it (or even if the user
 understands what is happening. The machine apparently stops running,
 blanks the screen, but still draws power).

 So, I would vote for this last alternative, the action taken to manually
 suspend the machine would be to close the lid. This would leave the
 shutdown button free for whatever design would fit that would allow for a
 quick shutdown action. My ubuntu laptop shows the whole shebang of logout,
 switch user, lock screen, suspend, hybernate, restart and shutdown
 options. If we only show options which have a visual and "mental" relation
 with the power button, that would leave restart and shutdown, and since
 I've read that you think restart is redundant, then just a shutdown
 question could appear, something like "Shutdown the laptop? Ok/Cancel" to
 avoid accidental presses. Or perhaps the design you mentioned, but with
 Shutting down being the default, and Suspend as the alternative (and for
 this alternative, using an icon of an XO closing its screen could even
 help link the notion of Suspend to the action of closing the lid).

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