Re: [gpm] offtopic: sleep nomenclature
- From: Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>
- To: Andrew Duggan <cmkrnl speakeasy net>
- Cc: GnomePowerManager List <gnome-power-manager-list gnome org>, richard hughsie com
- Subject: Re: [gpm] offtopic: sleep nomenclature
- Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 08:14:10 +0100
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.
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