Calum Benson wrote:
>
> On 4 Feb 2008, at 10:48, simon.zheng at sun.com wrote:
>>>
>>> Run-time check is better than compilation test. You patch will have 
>>> to be re-worked
>>> when suspend to ram come to work on Sparc, but a run-time check 
>>> means you don't
>>> have to recompile and rework the patch.
>> Agree. The best design is to have 5 buttons "Suspend", "Hibernate", 
>> "Shutdown", "Reboot" and "Cancel" on dialog.
>
> I know it's what Windows, Ubuntu etc. do, but this sort of dialog is 
> really a bit of a usability nightmare. It's difficult enough trying to 
> explain to my wife the difference between Suspend and Shutdown... I 
> did try to explain the difference between Suspend and Hibernate once, 
> but I gave up :)
>
> (Apple does it best IMHO: a single "Sleep" menu item that suspends to 
> disk and RAM at the same time.)
Only one item looks interesting. :-) How does it decide when suspend to 
disk or when suspend to RAM? Could you explain more? I haven't MacOS to 
hand now.

-Simon
>
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
>


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