I understand you, Sebastien. But in my opinion the key is the word 'previously'. There are lots of things that were easily configurable in 11.04 and now those options are lost. I've given five examples in gnome- control-center: configure laptop lid, power button, screensaver, user groups, automatic login in unity-2d (or gnome-shell).
I'm an 'experienced' user and I can solve those kind of little misfunctionalities, but I'm pretty sure that new users can't solve those kind of problems. And I must think as a new user because I used to be a teacher in a linux course in my university. Last June we choose ubuntu 11.04 in the course, and everybody were surprised how easy, but also how configurable it was. We'll have a new course on next February and I'm not sure what distro/DE will use, because ubuntu 11.10 (moreover gnome3) is a big regression in terms of configurability. PD: sorry for my bad English, I'm Spanish. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/880331 Title: Can no longer "shutdown" when laptop lid closes Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: 1. Ubuntu 11.10 kernel 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:50:42 UTC 2011 i686 2. software-center 5.0.1.5 / power settings menu / gnome-power-manager 3.2.0-0ubuntu1 3.expected to keep this option I had configured in Natty after upgrading to Oneiric 4. after migrating to Oneiric, this feature (closing the lid shuts down the laptop) disappeared. There is no way to set it again inside the power settings menu of the software center, as this option does not appear anymore under the settings for the lid options. Nor is it possible to set it again via gconf-editor: apps-->gnome-power-manager-->buttons and set lid_ac and/or lid_battery to "shutdown" (when changed to "shutdown", it does not change the power manager behavior when the lid closes)- To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/880331/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
