Hello all, This email is to get some feedback and discussion about an idea under consideration for Ubuntu in Natty.
Natty is currently NOT showing the Hibernate option in the list of shutdown choices. This is currently an experiment, but I thought it might be worth discussing the pros and cons on these lists as well. The reasoning for hiding Hibernate includes: 1. It doesn't work well for many users on many machines. 2. It's very slow. 3. It's not as useful because users can just suspend. 4. The difference between hibernate and suspend is confusing. 5. There is a lot of work involved with verifying that Hibernates works and fixing bugs to ensure that it works. This work is not always completed, and the work that does get done can be channeled to other useful areas. (In other words, fewer bugs through fewer features to support). However, Hibernate works well for some users, so this will be a painful regression[1]. Please note that currently: 1. No decision has been taken, it's just an experiment and is very open to discussion at this point. 2. The feature is hidden in the UI, but can be turned back on by tweaking, /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla 3. The desktop team decided that session saving (in Gnome) is unsalvagable, so removing hibernate would mean that there is no way to save state across powerdowns/powerups.[2] So, thoughts, discussion, feedback, options, suggestions, rants, raves, etc... ? Cheers, Rick [1] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/710796 [2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2011-January/002734.html -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
