s2both

[Tim Dijkstra]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:45:42 +0100
Frank Seidel <fseidel at suse.de> wrote:

> On Monday 12 March 2007 17:08:53 William Jon McCann wrote:
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > On 3/12/07, Rob Taylor <rob.taylor at codethink.co.uk> wrote:
> > > In terms of the UI, wouldn't it make sense to always do s2both for
> > > hibernate if its available?
> >
> > I agree, that sounds good to me.  I think the concept that (as a
> > user) I should be required to predict how long I'm going to be away
> > from my computer is pretty broken.  I want to close my laptop, have
> > it save my state, and come back at some unknown point in the future
> > and get back to it.  So I'll argue that even two options is pretty
> > bad nevermind three.
> For many users this might be correct, but this is IMHO policy that 
> should get decided by the UI-client (like g-p-m oder kpowersave) and
> not by hal.
> 
> But generally speaking having some smart intelligence about this would
> surely be fine for quite some people.
> E.g. below 15% batterylevel "smartsuspend" will always do true
> hibernate, if ac is online and battery is full "smartsuspend" could
> trigger a suspend2both.. etc.

Maybe William meant to do s2both always instead of s2ram. _That_ is what
I would find a useful default.

grts Tim