Power Button change in functionality

[Andrew Conkling]

On 6/1/06, dudus <eduardocereto at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/31/06, Corey Burger <corey.burger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dudus, this is a question for the ubuntu-users mailing list
> >
> > Corey
>
> I just think that the sleep button should be there as it was on breezy

This was mentioned a few weeks ago on the list.  For what it's worth,
you can see that the question was more suitable for -devel.

On 5/2/06, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> A translator has brought it to my attention that the words "sleep" and
> "suspend" are used with different meanings on the desktop. Specifically,
> gnome-power-manager gets it wrong. In my understanding, the correct use
> of the words (as used in the logout dialogue and the
> file /etc/default/acpi-support) is like this:
>
> Sleep = Suspend to Ram
> Hibernate = Suspend to Disk
>
> GPM uses them like this:
>
> Suspend = Sleep to Ram)
> Hibernate = Sleep to Disk)
>
> SNIP

On 5/5/06, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> For those interested in pursuing the discussion further, the
> gnome-power-manager maintainer is interested in trying to get consistent
> use of these words upstream in all places that use it. Contribute to
> this page if interested:
>
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomePowerManager/SleepNames

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