adding support for hibernation to xfce4-sessions's exit dialog

[Rodrigo Coacci]

A suggestion: make it a sane default to have hibernation disabled. And, if
possible, warn the user to configure correctly the system for hibernation
upon enabling the feature. I'm stressing this because I almost lost my
system because of misconfigured hibenation, and since Xfce is not distro nor
plataform specific, the user should be responsible for configuring the
hibernation properly.

Besides that, I really hope the Xfce guys apply your patches for 4.4.

2006/7/12, Andre Puschmann <andre.puschmann at stud.tu-ilmenau.de>:
>
> Jani Monoses wrote:
> > Rodrigo Coacci wrote:
> >> I guess it should also check for system capability for doing those
> >> things. I read somewhere else that a simple "cat /proc/something" or
> >> /sys/something should do the trick. I'm telling this because if
> >> hibernate is called in a system no "ready" for it, it may cause real
> >> data loss.... I don't know how xubuntu ppl work around this, maybe they
> >> already have some better HAL-based solution
> >
> > Asking HAL, but also allowing the user to disable suspend/hibernate from
> > the settings dialog, as having /sys/power or similar as you mention is
> > no guarrantee that hibernation works, it only says that support for it
> > is in the currently running kernel. Ubuntu uses a list of supported
> > laptops which are known to work but still user input is needed.
> >
> > Jani
>
> adding a new tab to "Session and Startup Settings" called "Hibernation"
> where i can enable/disable hibernation-buttons and where i can specify
> which command is used is a quite good idea.
> i can do that if this is ok for you?
>
> i mean, even if your hardware does support hibernation there this is no
> guarantee for it to work. if your hibernate-script is not configured
> properly hibernation might fail.
> it think let the user decide whether to enable or disable it is not to
> bad, isn't it?
>
> another question: i never worked with hal so far. are there any good
> documents about how it works and how to use it?
>
>
> regards
> andre
>
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-- 
Abraços,
      Rodrigo
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