Re: Suspend & Power Off: A compromise

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

Quoting Giovanni Campagna <scampa giovanni gmail com>:
> > The advantage of this solution is that the original intention of the
> > current design would be preserved - application state is never lost -
> > while making it easy for the user to save power if there is no state to
> > lose. If he or she doesn't like or want complete shutdown (because of
> > the boot time on next usage, or because he/she knows there is a
> > background process running that should be resumed next time) there is
> > still the option to suspend anyway.
> > What do you think?
> I see your points, and it would surely help the user deciding when to
> suspend and when to poweroff. Nevertheless I don't like this proposal
> because we would have the same menu item with two different actions,
> which is pretty confusing, expecially if the cause of the different
> result is not immediately evident.

+1

I have no problems with how it is now - *Suspend* *is* how users use a  
computer.5