Fedora Account System
Red Hat Associate
Red Hat Customer
Description of problem: With Fedora 19, the gnome shell user menu now only lists "Power Off" and no Suspend option despite this machine being a desktop with no lid that can be closed to suspend the machine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Gnome Shell 3.8.2 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open user menu Actual results: No Suspend option visible. Expected results: Suspend option visible. Additional info: Bug 968819 covers this issue for laptops. There, the rationale for removing the Suspend option (or rather, requiring Alt to be pressed for it to appear) is said to be on a laptop, you can just close the lid to suspend so the Suspend option doesn't need to be in an easily accessible menu. This rationale does not apply to desktop machines, and no other rationale has been given that does apply to desktop machines.
Same thing still present in F20. The alternative menu extensions doesn't work and I'm not about to try to teach my 71 yo mother to press some fucking alt key to suspend the machine. I cannot understand how a group effort can lead to thinking that pressing the alt to change the behaviour of a power-off button is a sound and intuitive solution. You should've seen her face when I told her about it. There's no chance in hell she'll ever use that.
(In reply to Tommi Kyntola from comment #1) > Same thing still present in F20. Yes. This behavior is intentional, and we won't change it downstream in Fedora. You can engage with the GNOME design team[0] to get a different behavior upstream, and we will pick it up in Fedora. [0] https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/
The upstream bug is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697299.