On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:52:51 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > [1] : g-p-m should simply choose itself what sleep state to put the > computer in; over time, for ACPI systems this may be S1 (sleep) -> S3 > (deeper sleep) -> S4 (suspend to disk AKA hibernate) after SLEEP_TIME, > 2*SLEEP_TIME and 3*SLEEP_TIME. > > Either way, the point is that the user will have difficulty figuring the > difference between "Suspend" and "Hibernate" and frankly he should never > have to spend time worrying about the difference. > I disagree here. First a lot of users know the difference between sleep/suspend and hibernate because of M$ Windows which already has this difference, and second, there are cases when this is not what a user wants. There are times when I want only suspend (S3), and times when I want only hibernate. For S1 I don't care too much.
> [2] : ideally I wouldn't have them but just "do the right thing" when the > lid is closed (suspend etc.) but unfortunately we cannot assume that since > distros want to ship g-p-m with sleep completely disabled since ACPI on > Linux blows out of the box. Some people close the lid because they use external monitors, so is bad to assume that if you close the lid, the g-p-m should suspend the system. And then SuSE has ACPI S3 and S4 enabled for some time, and most others have at least S3. Thx, Paul _______________________________________________ utopia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/utopia-list
