Re: [gpm] offtopic: sleep nomenclature

[Andrew Duggan <cmkrnl speakeasy net>]

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

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