[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Restart

[Bernie Innocenti]

El Fri, 16-07-2010 a las 18:30 -0600, Daniel Drake escribió:
> On 16 July 2010 16:50, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> > El Fri, 16-07-2010 a las 15:33 -0600, Daniel Drake escribió:
> >
> >> There was a discussion on sugar-devel before that ticket was opened,
> >> the changes had support from various deployments and other people.
> >
> > Which deployments requested it?
> 
> The idea came from Nepal. IIRC in the thread it was supported by Josh
> P, Tomeu, Walter and others.

For the record, I would support removing Restart too.

Unless, of course, I were required to dogfood the system, in which case
I would demand a proper Restart function :-)

Seriously, it's hard to think of a use-case where Restart is useful, yet
it's present in *all* desktop systems. It may even be used more often
than Shutdown. Why? Probably as a remedy for assorted system bugs, which
means that Sugar needs a Restart function *more* than any mature
desktop.

Some examples?

 - Restart after registering to the XS

 - Restart *before* registering to the XS

 - Restart to get rid of spurious pulsing icons in the frame

 - Restart when an activity won't let you quit it

 - Restart when you get dead downloads in the journal that won't go away

Admittedly, all the above issues could be cured much more quickly with
the good old CTRL-ALT-BS sequence. Then, shall we tell users about the
Xorg nerve pinch and leave out Restart?


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