Re: Session Management in 2.24

["Lucas Rocha" <lucasr gnome org>]

Hi Thomas,

2008/3/25, Thomas Thurman <tthurman gnome org>:
> Ysgrifennodd Lucas Rocha:
>
> > Vincent Untz and I will be working on making the new code shine for 2.24.
>
>
> Thanks for all the work you're doing on this.
>
>
>  > However, some simple changes are necessary on some basic
>  > components that run during the session such as gnome-settings-daemon,
>  > gnome-panel, nautilus, metacity, gnome-keyring, etc. I have most of
>  > the patches ready and I'll be filing bugs for each component soon
>
>
> Havoc, and apparently Sven last GUADEC, were suggesting that we remove
>  the requirement for the WM to remember windows, since there's really no
>  good way of doing it, and instead give the responsibility to the
>  applications, who have more of an idea what they're supposed to be
>  doing.  In practice I imagine this would mean the toolkit.  What do you
>  think of this as a way forward?

Yeah, this should be in the platform level. There's already a long
discussion about a session management API in GTK+ here:

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79285

I think this topic was proposed to be in the GTK+ Hackfest agenda but
it was dropped for some reason.

For 2.24, I'll focus on getting the new gnome-session up and running
smoothly. Hence, the session client API is not my top priority now. I
would be more than happy if someone wants to work on that.

--lucasr