[Bug 812394] Re: Disable hibernate option when it is not supported

2011-10-13 Thread Martin Pitt
That wouldn't include a black/whitelist, of course; I don't believe that this is going to work anyway. OEM installs can modify the .pkla to turn it back on if desired. ** Summary changed: - Disable hibernate option when it is not supported + Disable hibernate option by default ** Also affects: p

[Bug 812394] Re: Disable hibernate option when it is not supported

2011-10-13 Thread Martin Pitt
/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla already has a commented out stanza how to disable this. Easiest to disable it there. ** Package changed: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) => policykit-desktop- privileges (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: policykit-desktop-privileges (Ubuntu

[Bug 812394] Re: Disable hibernate option when it is not supported

2011-10-12 Thread Sebastien Bacher
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Triaged ** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is su

[Bug 812394] Re: Disable hibernate option when it is not supported

2011-09-28 Thread John Lea
** Changed in: ayatana-design Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/812394 Title: Disable hibernate option when it is not supported To manage no

Re: [Bug 812394] Re: Disable hibernate option when it is not supported

2011-08-25 Thread Martin Pitt
Ted Gould [2011-08-25 15:41 -]: > The question becomes: how do HW vendors that *do* care about Ubuntu > enough to ensure that hibernation works on their system express that so > that we know we're on one of those systems? Again, hibernation often doesn't fail because of a particular system, bu

[Bug 812394] Re: Disable hibernate option when it is not supported

2011-08-25 Thread John Lea
When OEM role a custom Ubuntu release for new hardware they will be able to include the new hardware on the white list. And all 'Ubuntu Certified' hardware (where it is testing and know to work) will also be included, so I think we are good here for now. It would also be great to have a community

Re: [Bug 812394] Re: Disable hibernate option when it is not supported

2011-08-25 Thread Ted Gould
On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 11:21 +, Martin Pitt wrote: > My gut feeling is that we should just disable hibernation by default, > period (and perhaps provide an Ui configuration bit to enable it). > Maintaining and checking a whitelist will just cause a lot of > unnecessary effort which won't actuall

[Bug 812394] Re: Disable hibernate option when it is not supported

2011-08-23 Thread John Lea
** Changed in: ayatana-design Assignee: (unassigned) => John Lea (johnlea) ** Changed in: ayatana-design Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: ayatana-design Status: New => Fix Committed ** Tags removed: needs-design ** Tags added: udo -- You received this bug notificatio

[Bug 812394] Re: Disable hibernate option when it is not supported

2011-08-22 Thread Martin Pitt
Retitling and reopening as per previous comment. However, I still don't understand the rationale for having a machine type whitelist.; see (2) in comment 5. Do we have hard data that hibernation is consistently broken on some particular hardware, and the reason isn't just partitioning? My gut fee