Latest rawhide updates seem to have removed the shutdown option at gdm and gnome logout

[Guy Fraser]

On Wed, 2005-27-04 at 21:17 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 4/27/05, Gerry Tool <gstool at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > I see the same behaviour, but can't answer the other questions.
> > Deliberately making it act this way doesn't seem sensible.
> 
> For 'modern' hardware with operational acpi the power button does a
> clean shutdown, so there is an argument to be made for this being a
> forward looking default. I'm not really concerned about arguing about
> default behavior i just want to know how to re-enable it for my older
> hardware as needed and whether or not this needs to be filed if this
> is actually a bug.  If this is an intended change in default behavior,
> I'll let other people light the torches and wave around pitchforks
> while lusting for the sticky sweet blood of developers.  I'll gladly
> settle for learning how to reconfigure options as needed so I can get
> a shutdown back on my gdm login for my older non-acpi hardware.
> 
> -jef"my k6-2 box is definitely not going to have a soft reboot when
> the power button is hit"spaleta
This assumes that you want to allow the machine to be shutdown 
when the power button is pressed. It may be a reasonable assumption 
but the power button may not be accessible or may be disabled.

In any case the option should be available to the administrator 
to decide.