Re: [gpm] offtopic: sleep nomenclature
- From: Andrew Duggan <cmkrnl speakeasy net>
- To: richard hughsie com
- Cc: GnomePowerManager List <gnome-power-manager-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: [gpm] offtopic: sleep nomenclature
- Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 18:14:09 -0400
Hi,
Richard Hughes wrote:
My views on the Suspend / Sleep / Hibernate / Standby / SuspendToX
naming problems: http://live.gnome.org/GnomePowerManager/SleepNames
What you have seems pretty good to me. I like the way you have sleep type
in the General preferences. I know one distro (that I use) put a Suspend
item on the Gnome System menu, which I think should be "Sleep", and it
should then do whatever gpm has defined for the sleep type (hibernate or
suspend). I yanked it out because it didn't seem to do what gpm had for the
preference (in my case hibernate) but instead always suspends, which at
least on all 3 of my systems suspend doesn't work but hibernate does.
Another possibility is that it could present a dialog with a 60 second
counter with the options of (suspend, hibernate and cancel) and take the
default action of what gpm defines as the preferred sleep type if the count
down expires.
The only trouble with using the word sleep at all is a I think Mac uses it
for what you and I would call suspend. Since new users are more likely to
be Windows users, I think sticking with Suspend and Hibernate is a good
idea. Beside no one ever switches away from OSX right?
Andrew
(I'm not subscribed to those other lists to I trimmed from the CC)
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