From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: suspend and hibernate nomenclature Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 17:39:30 +0200 Message-ID: <20060514153929.GE2438@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1147024930.16057.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060508200103.GB4312@ucw.cz> <1147620745.8072.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============92560832379187752==" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1147620745.8072.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org Errors-To: linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org To: richard@hughsie.com Cc: linux-pm@lists.osdl.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org --===============92560832379187752== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Ne 14-05-06 16:32:24, Richard Hughes wrote: > 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. reanimate? As you said, users are unlikely to see this one. Alternatives: dehibarnate (unhibernate?), resume-from-disk :-), ressurect, resuscitate (particulary useful if s-2-disk is buggy :-), revive, ... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html --===============92560832379187752== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --===============92560832379187752==--