GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 613509
Switch "Shut Down" to "Switch Off" and "Suspend" to "Sleep"
Last modified: 2015-02-09 21:57:58 UTC
Created attachment 156680 [details] [review] Patch for this string fix In Ubuntu, we're trying to unify the naming throughout of how the user tells Ubuntu to be ready for the power to be removed and that it should only keep the memory active removing power from other components. For those we are using "Switch Off" and "Sleep". The Ubuntu package already has this patch implemented. Hoping this could be used in the next cycle for GNOME.
Thanks to Ted Gould for this patch. Please see original bug at https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/gnome-power/+bug/531491
Well, this kind of thing needs to be discussed upstream on desktop-devel list and notes added to the HIG before we can include such large patches like this. For instance, should it be "..this computer" or "...your computer" or "..the computer" and also "Shut down, Shutdown, or Switch Off" should be discussed. The part changing suspend to sleep is just _wrong_ as we already standardized on sleep to mean a generic, non-specific sleep mode, where suspend and hibernate are used in localized UI where the differences are important. See http://live.gnome.org/GnomePowerManager/SleepNames for more details. I'm also slightly perturbed that this kind of decision is being patched into products by Ubuntu before any such decision has been made by upstream.
For the record, I reverted most of the changes (all but suspend->sleep) in Ubuntu now, and we might also revert the suspend->sleep one for the reasons you pointed out. The "this" vs. "your" etc. is fine to discuss upstream, of course, but it breaks tons of translations and is purely cosmetic. It's not appropriate to change this for 2.30.