[Pm-utils] offtopic: sleep nomenclature

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Thu May 4 22:14:20 PDT 2006


On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 22:43 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> My views on the Suspend / Sleep / Hibernate / Standby / SuspendToX
> naming problems: http://live.gnome.org/GnomePowerManager/SleepNames
> 
> Comments appreciated, but I don't want this to turn into a cross-list
> flame-fest. :-)

spot-on, on all counts.

Of course, you did pick exactly the nomenclature I've used in the
pm-utils scripts... but hey, why should that coincidence effect the fact
that it's right ;)

-- 
  Peter



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