Re: Proposal for new thinking in Session management

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 04:06:29PM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> The current explicit-save approach is there precisely because
> the app support and gnome-session itself isn't very good.
> 
> If we could get to the point where the user could log out and
> get a desktop on log in that was essentially the same as when
> he logged out, then at that point, I think you could consider
> saving the session always. 
> 
> So, the *first* step is going through apps one by one and making them
> save state really well. (This includes things like saving a 
> temporary file for the current document.)

How does kde's session manager implement this?  Better?  Maybe there's
something we can take from there.  Secondly, this sounds like an fd.o
problem since I'm sure others would love this kind of goodness.

sri