Re: GNOME 3.1.90 beta released!

[Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek gentoo org>]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Evandro Giovanini
<efgiovanini gmail com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
>> See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657496
>>
>> I hope we get some hardware that's a bit more advanced than this 1990's
>> behaviour in the future.
>>
>>
>
> As someone misfortunate enough to have used a WM phone for a few
> months I don't see what's so bad about the classic behaviour (for the
> lucky ones that may be unaware, I basically had to manually remove the
> battery every other week to recover from an OS crash).
>

On my laptop, I encounter enough hard lockups while testing software
that the long-press behaviour of the power button is essential for me.
I don't want to have to flip my machine over and take out the battery
everytime. For all I know, doing that repeatedly might even damage the
device.

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~Nirbheek Chauhan

Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team