Enable hibernation

[Marc Deslauriers]

On 14-01-06 04:32 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> How about supporting the failure condition better? Add a dialog with
>> instructions/warnings? At the very least the option should be able to be
>> added back with a setting an adventurous user can set.
> 
> I'm comfortable with the idea of this being a hidden toggle that the
> adventurous user can opt in to.  I don't think it should be something in the
> UI unless someone is going to commit to making the experience more robust. 
> Having a dialog pop up when you click the hibernate button - or when you
> close the lid expecting the machine to hibernate! - is cold comfort when the
> hibernation failure causes your machine to overheat in the bag, for
> instance.

I believe this is already a hidden toggle, in the form of a policykit file that
is dropped in place by the policykit-desktop-privileges package.

Marc.