pm-suspend-hybrid support in DeviceKit-power and g-p-m (original) (raw)

Victor Lowther victor.lowther at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 10:11:46 PST 2009

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 12:32 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:

2009/12/2 Victor Lowther <victor.lowther at gmail.com>: > What needs to be done to teach devicekit-power and gnome-power-manager > about hybrid suspend? I am going to have a hybrid suspend mode as an > option in pm-utils that does not rely on userspace suspend or tuxonice, > but I am not offered hybrid suspend as an option in the GUI.

Right, you have to bear in mind the options g-p-m gives are the ones users understand.

I do not need to be taught what users do and do not understand.

To a user:

suspend = quick, but bad if my battery runs out hibernate = sloooow, but good if my battery runs out

Yes, and it was a real-life user who missed hybrid suspend from Windows who requested that we add this functionality to pm-utils. I did, and then found that g-p-m did not register the change. I do not want them to have to run pm-suspend-hybrid from a command prompt whenever they want to use hybrid suspend.

Richard.

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