Suspend/hibernate on systems that don't suspend/resume or hibernate properly

[Michael Knepher]

I've tried following the debate over the change to suspend as the
visible and default way of managing power, but have not been able to
find any resolution of whether the default is expected to remain so on
systems that do not either suspend or resume properly or if this is up
to the distributions to handle. 

My understanding is that gnome 3 default is to suspend, then hibernate
after a certain period of time. While I don't think this is necessarily
the wrong choice, it currently does not work on my laptop, which does
not fully resume after a suspend, and for which hibernate is completely
broken. Now, with gnome-tweak-tool, I can at least change the settings
for closing the lid, but when I want to power off from the user menu, I
still need to press Alt to get that option. 

Will Fedora 15 attempt to recognize systems that are known not to
support the default behavior? And/or is there a way (through gsettings I
guess it would be?) for users to change this so we don't have to press
Alt every time?

Michael Knepher