Re: Disabling kernel's hibernate support by default, allow re-enabling it with a kernel cmdline option

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On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 05:18:49PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Di, 02.10.18 14:34, Hans de Goede (hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> 
> > Ok fair enough. Keeping it easy for users to try out hibernate is
> > a valid argument.
> 
> This is just weird. Why would GNOME expose a button to regular user
> that reads "hey, press me, please use this feature, but it's not going
> to work, and nobody is going to help you with it or fix bugs,
> kthxbye". That's just awful UI.

you are right. So GNOME should change to old bevavior.

> Quite frankly, this is quite ridiculous. GNOME is not the only user of
> this, we shouldn't expose crap that doesn't work in the UI, regardless
> what the UI looks like. GNOME has every right to assume that what the
> underlying layers advertise works. And when it doesn't then the
> underlying layers should stop advertising this.

Iirc on the kernel side it has been for nearly two decades or so like it 
is now. Every other "user" did learn how to deal with it. 
Why the sudden drama? Because GNOME decided to change something without
considering to ask the user?

Richard

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