On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 21:17 -0400, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Jason Warner > <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > 'sleep', the computer should both suspend and hibernate simultaneously. The > > computer remains suspended for a set period of time (e.g. 30min) or until > > the battery charge falls below a set level. At the point the suspend state > > is discarded, and if the user wakes the computer after this point their > > state is restored from hibernate. However if the user wakes the computer > > Won't this not work at all, given that in S3 nothing runs on the CPU, > and roughly just the RAM should be powered to maintain programs' > state?
There's generally a timer that can be set to wake the system at the appropriate time. You'd set that timer, wake up at the appropriate time, and then power down. > > I rather like Jeremy's suggestion of hiding Hibernate behind a > modifier key. Isn't that what Windows does too? Users migrating would > then expect it to be to be possible in Ubuntu too, if the computer > supports hibernating. Hiding menu items behind modifier keys is *really* undiscoverable; I think it should be avoided wherever possible. > > Now, whether hibernate works correctly or not is another question, but > I think we could further refine checks to make it more likely that it > will work if it's presented as a choice to the user. I think that reliability will be the determining factor in whether this is usable or not. This behaviour would be a win if I don't have to worry that hibernate's not going to work - or that my laptop's going to wake up in my backpack and then not shut down properly.
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