9.1 Proposal: shutdown menu

[pgf at laptop.org]

noiseehc wrote:
 > In the old builds I could initiate a shutdown and close the lid and the 
 > XO just finished the shutdown.
 > In the new builds when I close the lid the shutdown halts because of 
 > suspend (I think, can be mistaken). Could it be a little bit more clever 
 > about when to suspend? Or is it what you are referring with "(this will 
 > need to interact with lid-close in a sensible manner.)"?

yes -- that's one case.  the other i was thinking of was
if the "suspend in 5 seconds" thing were implemented, then you
don't want lid-close to preempt that in a way that caused
the "5 second delay followed by suspend" to complete _after_
you've closed, and later reopened, the lid -- you'll suspend
right after opening up.

paul

 > 
 > pgf at laptop.org wrote:
 > > this feature has been discussed on the list(s) earlier, but i'm not
 > > sure of its status.  i'd like to make sure it gets on the table.
 > > (and it just came up in dan's ethiopian report.)
 > >
 > > currently it is much easier to "crash" the laptop (by holding the
 > > power button down) than it is to shut it down cleanly.  while the
 > > journalled filesystem (currently) can recover from this on the
 > > next boot, application writes in progress might not.
 > >
 > > pushing the power button on the laptop should present a menu or dialog
 > > allowing shutdown.  as a strawman UI, the pushing the button should
 > > result in a simple dialog that looks like:
 > >
 > >         The laptop will suspend in 5 seconds.
 > >            Shutdown | Suspend Now | Cancel
 > >
 > > (this will need to interact with lid-close in a sensible manner.)
 > >
 > > paul
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 > >  paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org