System Suspend, Stop, and Restart

Contents

  1. System Suspend, Stop, and Restart
    1. Participants
    2. Goals
    3. Relevant Art
    4. Discussion
    5. Tentative Guidelines
    6. Comments
    7. See Also

Stopping and restarting the device.

The menu part of this design is covered by system status.

Participants

WilliamJonMcCann, JakubSteiner, AllanDay

Goals

  • Present a short and simple set of choices
  • Promote suspend/resume as a good way to stop the system
  • Allow updates to be installed, when they're available
  • Don't lose the user's work

Relevant Art

GNOME 3.28

gnome-3-28-menu.png

gnome-3-28-dialog.png

Holding down the Alt key turns the power off button into a suspend button.

Mac

http://jhuskisson.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/apple_menu.gif

https://i.imgur.com/JtCMkvv.png

Windows 10

https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/8ws_top.png

Clicking the power icon from the start menu shows a submenu with: "sleep", "shut down", restart".

Clicking the user's profile shows a menu with "change account settings", "lock", "sign out".

There's no confirmation dialog for shutdown, under normal circumstances.

Power button suspends by default. This can be changed from the settings.

Android / Mobile

https://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/themes/ap2/ap_resize/ap_resize.php?src=https://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/nexus2cee_power-728x619.png&w=728

  • Hard button short press - sleep
  • Hard button long press - offers shutdown or restart
  • Automatically sleeps after a short period

Discussion

See /History for previous iterations of the design, as well as comments about them.

Tentative Guidelines

https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/os-mockups/raw/master/system-status/system-status-menu.png

Comments

See Also

Design/OS/SystemStopRestart (last edited 2019-05-02 09:59:05 by AllanDay)