Shall we hide the GUI for Hibernate in Natty?

[Scott Ritchie]

On 01/31/2011 11:51 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Monday, January 31, 2011 02:40:36 pm Bryce Harrington 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.
> 
> I use it somewhat regularly, mostly when flying.  I agree it's slow, but 
> except when there's insufficient swap I'd had no problems with it.  When 
> there's insufficient swap it just fails so suspend and brings me back to my 
> desktop.  
> 
> I understand that it's been disabled in the kernel, so we'd have to get that 
> fixed (my preference) before we could go with your plan.
> 
> Scott K
> 

Shouldn't we be detecting when there's insufficient swap / disk space
and then hiding it then?

-Scott Ritchie