On 03/28/2013 07:32 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
(on a more personal note, why oh why would you ever want the system to suspend when you close the lid? That's what a suspend button is for. If my laptop is compiling something, I do *not* want it to suspend when I close the lid, thankyouverymuch. Oh well)
If nothing else, for symmetry. If a laptop will wake up from suspend when you open the lid (which mine at least will), having it go to sleep when you close it would be an intuitive behavior. For some people, having that intuitive symmetry broken produces enough mental dissonance that they are more comfortable with it present, even at the cost you describe. It's also a matter of convenience; if you *do* want to both suspend and close the lid in a particular case, with suspend-on-lid-close you can get the job done with just one action, but with suspend-only-on-button-press you have to take two. You pay for that convenience by sacrificing the convenience of being able to close the lid *without* suspending, but which inconvenience is the greater depends on your usage patterns, and different people may well prefer to sacrifice different ones. -- The Wanderer Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any side of it. Every time you let somebody set a limit they start moving it. - LiveJournal user antonia_tiger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
