On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:19, Sam Thursfield <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been watching this discussion with increasing disappointment. > Suspend and hibernate are both hacks around the fact that power on and > power off take a long time and that our session manager doesn't save > session state. > > Lots of progress is being made on system boot up time, it's improved > massively in the last few years in various distros and more cool stuff > is still to come. There are movements towards replacing the ancient PC > BIOS as well. And the next version of OSX contains "Resume" - which > saves the session between restarts. > > Let's do our batteries a favour and concentrate on the real problems, > rather than creating an increasingly complex set of workarounds. The > correct use case for any electronic device is power on when using it, > power off when not.
It's more than that (unless I'm lost in the discussion)... One example: when you have a desktop setup, with a whole bunch of terminals open, some with chroot running, it's far faster to just Suspend/Hibernate than to reboot and then having to setup all of that again. That's one of the reasons why Suspend/Hibernate is such a great invention. Even if the system booted in half a second, it takes longer to get to previous working state. Luckily the browsers save previous state (automatic), and so does gnome-session (via a setting that some people wouldn't know of), so that's two less thing to worry. There's ways to do this with gnome-terminal, but it's hard to set it up (one must know shells a little more intimately than is willing). I don't know about other terminals. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
