Switch "Shut Down" to "Switch Off" and "Suspend" to "Sleep"

So long as this item has a tooltip at all, I think we probably should leave it as it was, "Shut down the computer". Adding only the words "the computer" does not make for a useful explanation, whereas "Shut down the computer" is a subtle reassurance that "Switch Off" does what "Shut Down" used to do. Thanks!

Updated patch.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-panel - 1:2.29.91-0ubuntu2

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gnome-panel (1:2.29.91-0ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/add-indicator-applet.py, debian/gnome-panel.postinst,
    debian/indicator-applet.desktop:
    - changed to force the indicator-applet adding again on upgrade to lucid
      since quite some users removed the message indicator they were not using
      during the previous cycle and don't get application indicators now
  * debian/patches/19_switch_off_wording.patch:
    - change by Ted Gould to rename "Shut Down" to "Switch off" which is the
      wording which will be used over the desktop for lucid (lp: #531495)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:56:59 +0100

"Switch off" is poor terminology that does not accurately describe what happens when the menu option is selected.

http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|en&q=switch+off&hl=en

"switch off
    PHRASAL VERB
    If you switch off a light or other electrical device, you stop it working by operating a switch."

Clicking "switch off" usually removes power from the computer, but is not the same as physically operating a switch that turns the computer off.

"Shut down" works. "Shut off" works. "Power down" or "Power off" may work.

"Shut down" is probably the best option, as it just as accurately describes the act of shutting down power to the computer as it does halting the operating system so that the user may "power down" the computer manually using a physical switch or button. There's probably a reason that "shut down" it the terminology that has been in use up until now.