Comment 13 for bug 710796

> One proposal from OEM is to keep hibernate enabled at the kernel
> level, retain an option in gnome-power-manager to put the system
> into hibernate on a critical battery event, and remove hibernate from
> the rest of the UI (the power menu + shutdown dialog).

That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Hibernate either works well enough to be used or it doesn't. What it's used for doesn't affect how well it works.

If it works well enough to "save the day" in an emergency low-power situation, it works well enough for general use. Put another way, if it doesn't work well enough for general use, suddenly using it in an emergency low-power situation is only going to make that situation worse, by hanging or crashing during hibernate, or failing to resume anyway, and hence it doesn't help vs. a complete shutdown in that situation.

/me, who uses hibernate a lot, and was very glad it works perfectly on his new laptop under Maverick, with a few suspend/resume script tweaks, so I can save state an arbitrarily long amount of time not using the system and without it being plugged in.