Suspend is definitely a better default than the current one: shutdown. If battery power is critically low and we suspend, the worse that can happen is that we have to boot back up from scratch when the power runs out. In the best case we save them some boot time.
Hibernation + Suspend like macs do would be ideal, but I thought that idea was rejected before due to driver problems. To be honest, I still think it should be the default, and those with broken drivers should have to work around it by changing it to shutdown, instead of everyone trying to work around everyone else's bugs. -- Suspend should prevent shutdown and vice versa https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348124 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Foundations Team, which is a bug assignee. Status in “pm-utils” source package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I was running my laptop on battery, and gnome-power-manager displayed a message saying that power was critically low and the system would soon shut down. "No problem," I thought, "I'll just suspend so I don't lose my place in my work." So I clicked on suspend from the menu that appears when you click the user switch applet in the upper right. My system suspended fine. Later, I plugged my laptop in and opened the lid -- notice that I plugged in the laptop BEFORE resuming. After resuming, my laptop immediately shutdown. Explanation: When gnome-power-manager gave me the message, it either had already issued the shutdown command or was about to. So when I clicked suspend, I was suspending the laptop *in the middle of the shutdown process*. This plain shouldn't be able to happen. Suspend requests in the middle of shutting down should be ignored and vice versa. If a power user has a legitimate reason for wanting to suspend in the middle of the shutdown process, they can do some from the command line, it shouldn't be the default. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-foundations Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-foundations More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
