On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 04:56:27PM -0500, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > On 14-01-06 04:32 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> How about supporting the failure condition better? Add a dialog with > >> instructions/warnings? At the very least the option should be able to be > >> added back with a setting an adventurous user can set. > > > > I'm comfortable with the idea of this being a hidden toggle that the > > adventurous user can opt in to. I don't think it should be something in the > > UI unless someone is going to commit to making the experience more robust. > > Having a dialog pop up when you click the hibernate button - or when you > > close the lid expecting the machine to hibernate! - is cold comfort when the > > hibernation failure causes your machine to overheat in the bag, for > > instance. > > I believe this is already a hidden toggle, in the form of a policykit file > that > is dropped in place by the policykit-desktop-privileges package.
Could this get documented on the wiki? I'd like to be able to point people to how to enable hibernation again. -Kees -- Kees Cook -- technical-board mailing list technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board