inconsistent use of the words "suspend" and "sleep" on the desktop

Bonilla, Alejandro alejandro.bonilla at hp.com
Thu May 4 00:32:53 BST 2006


On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 16:21 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 12:01:23AM +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> > Couldn't agree more. However, I couldn't really care less as long as the
> > logout dialogue and gnome-power-manager are consistent (which right now,
> > they are not). It would be great to get a definitive opinion about which
> > vocabulary to use (mdz?), and then get it sorted (announcing any
> > consequent string change to the translators).
> 
> I defer to whatever the laptop team prefers.

The term is Suspend, short of Suspend to RAM. But this is Ubuntu Linux
for Humans so Sleep is maybe the right word.

I think this went off -devel already.

-- 
Alejandro Bonilla



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