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Subject: Re: kdeutils/klaptopdaemon
From: George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date: 2003-10-07 21:26:45
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On Tuesday 07 October 2003 06:33, Volker Krause wrote:
> George Staikos wrote:
> > CVS commit by staikos:
> > Question for developers: can we clarify the difference between:
> > - hibernate
> > - suspend
> > - standby
>
> According to the klaptopdaemon code "hibernate" means suspend to disk,
> "suspend" means suspend to RAM and "standby" is used for other power saving
> modes with less energy saving.
> IMHO these categories make sense, but I'm not sure how obvious the naming
> is.
It might be a good idea to define these in portable.cpp for people doing
porting from more unique hardware.
> > My laptop has one thing, called "sleep". Which one am I going to put it
> > under to emulate the same behaviour as a PC?
>
> I would say this depends on what it actually does.
Ok suspend sounds correct, which is what I did. I'd like to get a sort of
standby mode too. I know that it's possible to power off the display for
instance, which is probably a good start at implementing standby.
--
George Staikos
KDE Developer http://www.kde.org/
Staikos Computing Services Inc. http://www.staikos.net/
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