Re: [Utopia] GNOME Power Manager "redesign"

[Daniel Gryniewicz <dang fprintf net>]

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 22:09 +0100, Ed Mack wrote:
> > Hibernate is suspend to disk. Suspend is suspend to RAM. Maybe I should
> > just put those...
> 
> Those mean nothing to the user. Try to use descriptive, non-technical
> names (if possible), and give the user enough additional information to
> allow them to make a smart choice.
> 

FWIW, Windows uses Hibernate for suspend to disk, and Sleep for suspend
to RAM.  I'd expect windows users to know which is which by those names.
At least, non-techie windows users I know do know which is which.

Daniel