f8 gripe#2: why did f8's pm-hibernate regress?

[Douglas McClendon]

Douglas McClendon wrote:

[ pro-tux-on-ice rant snipped ]

> might be time for me to go back to tux-on-ice.  I truly am disgusted by 
> having to suffer through 5-15 seconds of thrashing while changing 
> desktops after resume.  I would much rather the resume take 20 seconds 
> longer, and present me with a good user experience.  (yes, I am one of 
> those people that thinks that offering early login while the system 
> finishes booting is a really stupid thing).

To clarify this harsh, theoretically offensive statement-  Early login 
done _right_ would be fine.  Doing it the incomplete way, such as the 
vista experience, is IMO a regression, not a feature.  I.e. it boggles 
my mind that fast boot-to-login time is perceived as so valuable, that 
the implementers will let a user's first experience with the system be 
at its absolute valley(anti-peak) responsiveness phase.

I guess for early login this isn't so bad, as people just learn that the 
fast boot time is an illusion and that it's better to sit back and let 
the system IO settle before using it.  But what started my rant was the 
swsusp choice, which is not workaroundable by just letting the system IO 
settle.

and the 5-15 seconds was a bit of an exageration, more like 5-10.  But 
still, evocative of winblowz 3.1 swap thrashing....

</rant>

-dmc