Re: [gpm] offtopic: sleep nomenclature

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 18:14 -0400, Andrew Duggan wrote:
> 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. 

You mean Fedora :-)

The sleep action on the panel does suspend, and the sleep action in the
logout box does hibernate. It's because there were no translations in
time, if I remember right. I'll create a bug for FC6.

Richard.