Shutdown configuration and UI

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Dear all,

I have some questions with regard to the shutdown UI and configuration.

1. The button inside the menu (on the lower right), when set to "Sleep" for example, is very small horizontally and is left-aligned. Perhaps this should be changed to spanning the width of the menu (like "Help and Support" way above it). I think that would look way better.

2. Under Configuration/Configure, what exactly does "Power button" mean? The PHYSICAL power button of my machine or the default inside the menu (i.e., the preselected item of 1.)? This is a bit confusing to me. Furthermore, the dropdown in the configuration dialog seems to be missing "Hibernate", while the menu (again 1.) shows it.

3. Would it be possible to change the Right-Click-On-Start-Button menu to change the last item (currently "Shutdown") to a configurable element (sleep, hibernate, etc.)? This would enable a very quick shutdown/sleep. However I have no idea how to integrate this with the dialog currently shown so this is probably a bad idea. Nevermind. ;)

 

Philip

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

We have tried to match how the Windows 7 UI handles things which is why the button becomes smaller, but perhaps we should set a minimum size as when set to say Lock it is quite narrow.

The "Power button" refers to the button on the startmenu not the machines power button.  I agree the language may be confusing right now and we may alter it in the future.

Hibernate isn't an option that Windows 7 offered for that button, but I agree it should be allowed and we will see about allowing that.

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