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policykit-desktop-privileges package

  1. Bug #812394
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 812394

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote : Re: [Bug 812394] Re: Disable suspend/hibernate options when they are not supported

On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 15:55 +0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Ted Gould [2011-08-18 14:13 -0000]:
> > So do you feel we can assume that on all machines suspend works?
>
> It certainly doesn't, but at least it "works" on far more machines
> than where it doesn't. Reportedly suspend sometimes fails randomly,
> when you have particular peripherals attached, or suspend too many
> times, etc.), but that wouldn't be helped with a by-machine whitelist
> either.

I guess the point here Martin is that you're saying "we don't know" --
and that leads to very confused designs that say we don't know to the
user, and thus the user doesn't know. Then they have no confidence in
us to tell them anything!

I think that we need to come up with a "yes" or "no" answer to the
question: "Does suspend work?" Or "yes, with a blacklist" or "No, with
a whitelist" would also work.

Do you think this would be a good thing to put on the technical board's
agenda?