System Suspend, Stop, and Restart

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

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

Mac

Windows 10

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

• 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

Comments

See Also

• User Menu

• Software Updates

• System status menu

• GRUB2 integration in KDM - rebooting to other OSes