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

[Matthew East]

On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 21:37 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Ok, the other other Matt has suggested we go with suspend and hibernate,
> on the basis that hal uses this:

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

Thanks
-- 
mdke at ubuntu.com
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