Ubuntu
hotkey-setup package

hotkey-setup uses confusing names for suspend and hibernate

Bug #43202 reported by Richard Hughes
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hotkey-setup (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

hotkey-setup is confusing with the use of incorrect sleep nomenclature.

I've written about this in more detail here: http://live.gnome.org/GnomePowerManager/SleepNames

I really think it's important to make this easier for end users.

Many thanks,

Richard.

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Matthew Garrett (mjg59) wrote :

hotkey-setup uses the kernel keycode names, which suck. Changing that would be differently confusing, so I'm going to leave it as is (possibly with a note that this sucks and is confusing in the docs)

Changed in hotkey-setup:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

Yeah, the comment from the 'NOTES' that you already found was basically my own attempt at clearing it up (or at least documenting it...)

We're probably stuck with the kernel keynames, but if you /do/ get the names changed in the kernel source then the keycodes maps will get rebuilt from the new header file.

The hard be will be getting it through because 'KEY_SUSPEND' would have different actions before and afterwards which is likely to cause all sorts of fun if people don't bother to check exactly which version of the header files they are using...

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