On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 09:24 +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 08:12:05AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > > > If you know of a project that's using the wrong name, or a distro, then > > Well, i don't think here is a "right" or "wrong". It depends on the users > you target. And even non-technical users are not as stupid as one might > think. > My children (7 and 8 years) immediately knew what "suspend to RAM" and > "suspend to disk" meant. Of course they als know what "RAM" is.
Well my parents still gets confused about saving a file to "memory" and so for them suspend-to-ram means as little as suspend-to-disk and they are not stupid people. > But then, IMO computers _are_ things that you should have some minimal > knowledge about, otherwise you will screw up big time anyway. But we shouldn't have users googling before they can just suspend the computer, right? > > please open bugs to that component and make them aware they should be > > using suspend and hibernate (point them to the wiki page). > > Assuming that these projects would agree with you :-) Pahh, give it time, and enough bugzilla's :-) > And from a technical point of view, it does not really matter how the > HAL methods are named. They could be named "foo1" and "foo2" as long > as it is well documented that "foo1" does "suspend" and "foo2" does > "hibernate". Oh, from a technical point of view I agree, but if we have a couple of well defined names then we should strive to use them so it's all consistent and not a horrible mess: >From Paul Sladen, in a Ubuntu bugzilla entry; >here's from NOTES from 'hotkey-setup' > When the machine should be put to sleep in some fashion: > KEY_SLEEP signals Suspend to RAM (Suspend, technically called "standby") > KEY_SUSPEND signals Suspend to Disk (Hibernate, technically called "suspend"...) So by adopting common names, and actively *changing* other projects we can help to cut out this crazy confusion we have now. (IMO) Richard. _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
