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

[Victor Lowther]

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.