Comment 60 for bug 812394

I strongly support the solution in #33: give a warning when the user uses hibernate, with a link to more information.

Does anyone know if this trend to remove features is motivated by user studies? Or is it just intuition? I find this trend very annoying, but I'm probably not an average user. I switched from Debian to Ubuntu in 2005, because things (e.g. wireless, mplayer (?)) "just worked" out of the box. Probably Debian is much more usable "out of the box" now. Maybe it's time to go back?

Maybe there could a be survey in the distribution upgrade UI, that included questions related to the "simplification" of interfaces? This way we could find out what proportion of users really want their options limited. It might be hard to word this survey in a neutral way, e.g. I might word the question as "do you prefer to be treated like a mentally disabled 8 year old", whereas the people that want to remove the hibernate (and suspend !!!) feature might say "do you prefer that options, which may not work with your setup and could cause data loss if you don't save before using them, are disabled by default?". So, it would make sense to have concrete examples in the survey. E.g.
- the current hibernate example.
- the restriction to a fixed set of zoom levels in evince.
- the newish requirement that you hold a modifier key while right-clicking on the Gnome menu, if you want a menu to pop up.
- the hard-coding, with no option to override, of WIn+P to toggle display settings.