Re: gnome-session patch nag: change client removal order when logging out

[Christian Kirbach <christian kirbach googlemail com>]

On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:45:02 +0100, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>  
wrote:

> > Personally, I'd even push this further by statically holding back  
> > killing the following applications at logout,
> > and then finally closing them in chronological order:
> >
> > nautilus
> > metacity
> > gnome-panel
>
> Silly question, but do they actually need to be killed? Ie. wouldn't it
> be easier to ask them to save their session, and simply "exit" (ie. make
> the server restart get rid of them).
Of course it would make sense. You just proved that I do not know
the details of session management ;)

My point is: On logout, close all other apps first (by whatever  
appropriate means),
then close all nautilus windows (the last remaining windows), which will  
eventually
clear the desktop, and finally close metacity and gnome-panel (by whatever  
appropriate means).

I believe this logout behaviour would be the smoothest on user's eyes,  
from a visual point of view.
I have OSX in my mind, which closes all windows and finally slides the  
panel gracefully off the screen.



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