[gpm] Re: offtopic: sleep nomenclature
- From: Peter Jones <pjones redhat com>
- To: richard hughsie com
- Cc: pm-utils <pm-utils lists freedesktop org>, GnomePowerManager List <gnome-power-manager-list gnome org>, Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham cyclades com>, hal lists freedesktop org
- Subject: [gpm] Re: offtopic: sleep nomenclature
- Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 10:47:09 -0400
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 08:01 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 01:24 -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> > Wake is the opposite of sleep, not hibernate.
>
> This is why I didn't use wake. Wake has been used in the past for resume
> from standby, resume from hibernate and resume from suspend.
>
> The backwards action name isn't as important for end users IMO. The user
> will only ever click a "Suspend" button, not a "Resume" button :-)
Absolutely; no end user should ever *have* to see resume or thaw in the
UI. But they will show up, presumably, in end-user documentation.
--
Peter
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