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Suspend and hibernate names

Submitted by hughsie on Sun, 2006-05-07 12:22. GNOME

Microsoft Windows and OSX have decided on names for the sleep actions and it's about time Linux did the same. We are hurting the user experience with ad-hoc and confusing policies about naming.

Developing gnome-power-manager (and a chunk of the power management in HAL) gives me first-hand experience of the ways users, distros, packagers and developers can and do get this wrong.

From an Ubuntu bugzilla entry:
here's from NOTES from 'hotkey-setup' When the machine should be put to sleep in some fashion: KEY_SLEEP signals Suspend to RAM (Suspend, technically called "standby") KEY_SUSPEND signals Suspend to Disk (Hibernate, technically called "suspend"...)

I hope this page can convert some of the wacky/zany/confusing/crazy software out there to stick to common names.

I'm now trying to get project, vendor and distro buy-in so that we can all be using the same names. Comments appreciated.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGH!

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Tue, 2006-05-09 14:48.

I don't care what anyone says. If you have a heartbeat you've been trained to use windows in 95% of cases. Using interfaces/terms that aren't damn similar to windows is suicide. Once you actually have a decent size share of the market then you try to change things for "the better" whatever the hell that means. Half the time I think gnome does things slightly different just to be able to say they didn't lift it directly from windows. I mean christ, do you think these gnome developers actually have a clue as to wtf a usable interface is when all they use is the stuff they dreamed up? of course you're gunna know how to use your own stuff! These people need to WAKE TFU. I mean do you honestly think that MS just randomly decides how they wanna lay the interfaces out? Do you think the Gnome community has a lock on the concept of usability? Christ get over it. M$ probably spends more $$ on UA then the GNP of Chile.

Yeah i'm playing devils advocate alittle ;) or what some, who like to use the term for anything they don't agree with, call trolling. Still doesn't change my mind about that stuff.

So am i actually saying that free projects should just follow MS's lead when MS provides functionality in a product well before it arrives in GNOME/KDE? YES thats exactly what I'm saying. Why? Because 99 out 100 the person trying to us it on GNOME used it on Windows first 5 years ago.

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