GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 791660
Add a "Reboot" system action callable through overview
Last modified: 2018-07-11 19:58:40 UTC
Since GNOME shell 3.26, the following actions are available in the overview: power off, suspend, lock screen, log out, switch user and orientation lock. Could we also add reboot (possible alias: restart)?
Since the "Power off" action leads to a confirmation which also has a "Restart" button, "reboot" and "restart" should just be added as aliases for the "Power off" action (which I came here to file a bug about ;))
Separately, it might make sense for the "Power off" shortcut to be renamed "Power off/restart" since it allows both. BTW, has ellipsising been abandoned in GNOME Shell for "doesn't happen immediately" actions? I noticed none of the "Power off" and "Log out" overview shortcuts or the "Log out" menu item are ellipsised, despite none of them resulting in immediate action. I ask since people may well not use an unellipsised item called "Power off" if they searched for "restart"/"reboot".
(In reply to Stephen from comment #1) > Since the "Power off" action leads to a confirmation which also has a > "Restart" button, "reboot" and "restart" should just be added as aliases for > the "Power off" action ... which was done in bug 786987. An actual separate "reboot" action is trickier, as we don't currently have a reboot UI that is separate from power off.
> An actual separate "reboot" action is trickier, as we don't currently have a > reboot UI that is separate from power off. I've seen some ideas about a refined system menu thrown around by designers lately, which do expose separate "Power Off" and "Restart" toplevel actions. If that happens, it will also be available as search result as requested in this bug. But without that separation, I don't see us implementing this only for search - either it will happen independent from this bug, or not at all, so closing tentatively.
Separate launchers named "Power Off" and "Restart", both leading to the power off/restart modal, would be better than the current situation. Currently: Super -> type "Restart" -> "Power Off" appears -> user might not click, since that's not what they want to do -> if they click anyway, a dialogue is shown that isn't "Power Off"-specific anyway With a separate Restart launcher (and each launcher only showing up for the respective keywords): Super -> type "Restart" -> "Restart" appears -> User clicks -> a dialogue is shown that isn't "Restart"-specific anyway, but offers it. This is at least closer to being intuitive for the user.
Renaming the launcher to e.g. Power Off/Restart would also be an improvement.