Shall we hide the GUI for Hibernate in Natty?

[frederik.nnaji at gmail.com]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 20:40, Bryce Harrington <bryce at canonical.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:04:22AM -0800, Rick Spencer wrote:
> > Natty is currently NOT showing the Hibernate option in the list of
> > shutdown choices. This is currently an experiment, but I thought it
> > might be worth discussing the pros and cons on these lists as well.
> >
> > So, thoughts, discussion, feedback, options, suggestions, rants, raves,
> > etc... ?
>
> I used to use hibernate a lot, even though it was slow like mentioned in
> the original email, it was a nice way to save state.  Handy when on
> airplanes.
>
> But I agree it's so painfully slow and unreliable to be unusable in its
> present state.  Hiding the option in the menu and declaring it
> officially unsupported (but making it configurable and still callable
> from pm-utils and so on, just no bug reports) seems like a good
> approach.
>

yeah. like a checkbox in the Power Management Preferences:
[ ]  show "hibernate" option in Session Menu   (BETA)

right?
to me, it is not even BETA, since it works on 1 out of 5 machines i test it
on.
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