Re: [Pm-utils] Re: [gpm] offtopic: sleep nomenclature
- From: Peter Jones <pjones redhat com>
- To: Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>
- Cc: pm-utils lists freedesktop org, gnome-power-manager-list gnome org, richard hughsie com
- Subject: Re: [Pm-utils] Re: [gpm] offtopic: sleep nomenclature
- Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 12:27:03 -0400
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 09:56 -0400, Pat Suwalski wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
> > Personally I think wake is too generic, a user could quite easily say
> > "when I woke up from suspend" when you can't say "when I thawed from
> > suspend"...
>
> At the same time, "thaw" does not translate well to many other languages
> that I'm familiar with. In several, "thaw" literally means "melt the
> meat." But that's probably okay.
That's probably not much of an issue, as the goal is that end users
won't see any mention of resume or thaw in the UI.
I think we're probably making too big a deal of this. Richard is right;
if we get even most projects/distros to use "suspend" and "hibernate",
we're 95% of the way there.
--
Peter
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