Re: Proposal for new thinking in Session management

["Larry W. Virden" <lvirden cas org>]

From: montr skummelt no writes:

>I propose a new system, that ALWAYS saves the session without asking, 
>and gives the user the chance to open up his previous session when 
>loggin in. 

Until the GNOME session code is built well enough to handle any
application - and frankly, that time seems unlikely to come -
I would suggest that making this change will make a user's
life harder, rather than easier.

For instance, with the GNOME software that Sun currently ships,
less than 50% of the applications the users start are recognized
at all by the 'save sessions' code.  Of the ones that are recognized,
a number are not done properly, because applications like
mozilla and many others are started in wrapper shells that set up
various environment variables, etc.

For a site to enable its users to start such applications properly,
they have to set up specialized startup profiles.  

By always saving a session, the user is unable to determine
which applications are going to restart properly, which ones
will have to be terminated and started manually, etc.

Please don't cause such grief.
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