pm-suspend-hybrid support in DeviceKit-power and g-p-m

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:32:38PM +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.
> 
> To a user:
> 
> suspend = quick, but bad if my battery runs out
> hibernate = sloooow, but good if my battery runs out

suspend = eats battery
hibernate = battery stays charged
 
> 
> So in that sense, I would think mapping the DeviceKit-power
> Hibernate() method [and thus g-p-m] to hybrid suspend on systems that
> support it to be a very good idea.

  This way you would loose one great advantage of hibernate, namely
not using battery.

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