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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Custom Shutdown Options
From:       David Jarvie <djarvie () kde ! org>
Date:       2010-08-27 18:16:34
Message-ID: 201008271916.43904.djarvie () kde ! org
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On Friday 27 August 2010 16:56:45 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Thursday, August 26, 2010, David Jarvie wrote:
> > I agree with Andras that a plain hibernate option is essential. If people
> > are travelling, for example, and want to suspend their laptop for a while
> > before resuming it later on the journey, the last thing they will want is
> > to have it consuming battery just because there isn't an obvious option to
> > suspend to disk and power off. 
> 
> again, mac users don't complain about this. in fact, they laud it because it 
> allows them to just do something sensible rather than think about what all 
> those options mean.

I've heard of people who have a Mac machine who get (if I remember correctly) \
something like 6 hours battery time running Mac OS X, but only a couple of hours \
battery running Linux on the same machine. If this is typical, I think that the \
ability to power off immediately when suspending is likely to be a much more \
important  to KDE users than it is to Mac users. The fact that Mac users don't \
complain therefore isn't necessarily particularly relevant to KDE.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KDE developer.
KAlarm author -- http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm


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