RE: What about a shutdown/hibernate button?

2007-09-20 Thread Steve Magoun
On Sep 20, 2007, at 7:00 AM, "Levinson, Aaron N" wrote: > There are various arguments that can be made for hibernation on > MIDs. I > think there will be some users that use their MIDs irregularly, > perhaps > once or twice per day. If there are, say, 12 hours between uses, then > the stan

Re: What about a shutdown/hibernate button?

2007-09-19 Thread Amit Kucheria
On 9/19/07, Adilson Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe the idea is to keep the devices on, hibernating when not in > use, but to have some way of forcing the this behavior and power down > the device is not a bad idea either I guess. Why? The user shouldn't have to care. If she stops

Re: What about a shutdown/hibernate button?

2007-09-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:03:15PM -0700, Levinson, Aaron N wrote: > There are various arguments that can be made for hibernation on MIDs. The strongest argument against is that the existing implementation of hibernation on Linux is riddled with design flaws. While it works much of the time, I

RE: What about a shutdown/hibernate button?

2007-09-19 Thread Levinson, Aaron N
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ubuntu-mobile- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Zimmerman > >On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 11:20:49AM -0700, Levinson, Aaron N wrote: >> Hibernate would be great, but I'm not aware of hibernate functionality >> on Linux, only on Windows. I

Re: What about a shutdown/hibernate button?

2007-09-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 11:20:49AM -0700, Levinson, Aaron N wrote: > Hibernate would be great, but I'm not aware of hibernate functionality > on Linux, only on Windows. Is hibernation planned for MIDs? In Ubuntu, we use Linux swsusp (software suspend) to provide hibernate functionality. This rel

Re: What about a shutdown/hibernate button?

2007-09-19 Thread Adilson Oliveira
Levinson, Aaron N escreveu: > Based on how people are using the Nokia Internet tablets, many of them > let the device go to sleep rather than shutting it down. It takes some > time to power-up and reboot the device, so for many users, it is > preferable to let the device go to sleep, even if it is

RE: What about a shutdown/hibernate button?

2007-09-19 Thread Levinson, Aaron N
on Linux, only on Windows. Is hibernation planned for MIDs? Aaron Levinson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adilson Oliveira Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 9:54 AM To: ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: What about a shutdown/h

What about a shutdown/hibernate button?

2007-09-19 Thread Adilson Oliveira
I believe the idea is to keep the devices on, hibernating when not in use, but to have some way of forcing the this behavior and power down the device is not a bad idea either I guess. []s Adilson. -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: