On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 22:39 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > Hi all, > > I see that in Factory, Alternative Status Menu is no longer installed by > default. Although GNOME 3.6 finally provides "Power Off" by default, > without Alternative Status Menu it is *impossible* to Hibernate (without > resorting to command line). You can't press Alt to get Hibernate like > you could for Power Off before - you just cannot do it. > > Moreover, Alternative Status Menu v3.6 no longer provides Hibernate by > default. The extension still supports Hibernate perfectly fine provided > it is configured to do so via gsettings, but if you install the > extension from extensions.gnome.org, then it will use a private > gsettings file that Dconf Editor cannot see, and you're basically out of > luck unless you really know what you're doing. So this has to be an > openSUSE package, rather than something installed from > extensions.gnome.org. > > I've done the work of updating the extensions package and our default > gschema overrides and filed SRs 146537 and 146538 for this. If those are > accepted then anyone installing the extension with zypper or yast will > get Hibernate and be fine, but I'm aware that we don't normally package > extensions unless they're installed by default, so I sent this email to: > > 1) Explain why we should package this even if we don't install it by > default. > > 2) Suggest that we should continue to install it by default. :-) This > isn't covered by my SRs, and I don't know how to do it anyway. > > Happy Friday, > > Michael Catanzaro > Sounds sensible to me. Quite frankly, extensions are in my opinion one of the killer features of GNome 3. I think we should even use extensions more liberally, breaking with mainstream... it is our prerogative as a distribution after all. But, not being able to suspend would be a very large peeve for me. I've gotten behind Gnome 3 from having been a KDE zealot for some time, and this design choice along with removing the High Contrast accessibility theme are rather foolish decisions in my opinion. -- Roger A. Luedecke openSUSE Ambassador http://www.opensuseadventures.blogspot.com
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