On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 14:05 +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > On Friday 05 May 2006 07:43, Richard Hughes wrote: > > My views on the Suspend / Sleep / Hibernate / Standby / SuspendToX > > naming problems: http://live.gnome.org/GnomePowerManager/SleepNames > > > > Comments appreciated, but I don't want this to turn into a cross-list > > flame-fest. :-) > > Ok. Silly comments first... > > "Awww! :) No comment on silly names like "swsusp"?" > > "Spose I'd better rename my patch to hibernate2 then." > > And then more seriously, I like the idea of choosing names that the user will > understand, and appreciate the suspend-to-disk point, particularly when we're > working towards suspending to other things (flash, usb, network). > > The second set doesn't seem right. The opposite of hibernate is wake (the > bear > doesn't get frozen),
Wake is the opposite of sleep, not hibernate. The bear may not precisely freeze (though the cold-blooded animals do), but it doesn't wake until the rest of the local ecosystem is literally thawing. Then again, "thaw" also applies to e.g. a bears fur, and in many other scenarios. If you google for such uses, you'll find statements like "Adults emerge in September and hibernate until the spring thaw", which conveys a reasonable analogy to this scenario. Reptiles are described by biologists as "freezing" and "thawing", but I think "freeze" is overused at enough places that we should remain weary of its connotations, and it's fairly similar, conceptually, to hibernation. > and the oppostite of thaw is freeze. Which is probably > why we use the later for what we do to processes when hibernating the system. ... and that's really close enough for the already rather stretched analogy. -- Peter _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
