On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 03:17:10PM -0500, Thomas Ward wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Kees Cook <k...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > > Correct me if I'm wrong, Kees, but isn't this already documented on > the official documentation site? > https://help.ubuntu.com/13.10/ubuntu-help/power-hibernate.html > (replace 13.10 with 12.04 or others and it shows the documentation for > that release)
Ah-ha, perfect! Thanks :) -Kees -- Kees Cook -- technical-board mailing list technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
