Re: suspend and hibernate nomenclature

[Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 20:01 +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > First, sorry for the random mail to this mailing list.
> > 
> > I'm the developer of gnome-power-manager. The latest mini-project of
> > mine is to fix the suspend-hibernate nomenclature used by OSS projects.
> > 
> > This might not effect the lowest layers of the stack (i.e. I want to
> > focus on the stuff used by *users*), so this might not be applicable to
> > you guys. Please keep me cc'd if you discuss, as I'm not subscribed to
> > this list.
> > 
> > Full description of the problem is here:
> > http://live.gnome.org/GnomePowerManager/SleepNames and I would encourage
> > you guys to add comments to the end of the wiki if required.
> 
> Please do not use word 'thaw'. We already freeze processes during
> suspend, and we thaw them during resume.

Got any better ideas? It needs to *just* apply to hibernation, not a
generic term like wake.

Richard.



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