Hibernate, suspend, sleep... clarification needed
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Bug Description
This is not really a bug in the OS, but rather in the names we use of these power states.
What I would like to do, is open a conversation for rephrasing these actions. Now I don't really know what people mean when they are talking about hibernate, sleep, suspend or what ever people call these things!
I understand that when someone speaks of sleep state, that means suspend to ram (right?). And similarly hibernate means suspend to disk. But what are people talking about when they just talk about suspend? Is it suspend to ram or disk?
In the Finnish translation, I think it gets even worse! Keskeytystila, lepotila - I always get those mixed up! (Well, fortunately there is something I can do about that =)
I believe that we have to deal with these issues so that everybody can talk about these with the same names. This is especially important when making a bug report here!
| Mikko Saarinen (mikk0) wrote | #1 |
| Mikko Saarinen (mikk0) wrote | #2 |
| Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote Re: [Bug 39639] Re: Hibernate, suspend, sleep... clarification needed | #3 |
Why are we not using names like Standby? It is widely used in all electronics and is easily understood. In Finnish I would call it Valmiustila.