Re: gnome 3

[Sam Thursfield <ssssam gmail com>]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Dodji Seketeli <dodji seketeli org> wrote:
> Sam Thursfield <ssssam gmail com> a écrit:
>
>> Suspend and hibernate are both hacks around the fact that power on and
>> power off take a long time and that our session manager doesn't save
>> session state.
>
> This seems to be an over-simplification to me.  Processes managed by the
> session manager are just a part of what comprises the user's working
> set.  And of course, there are users who use things that are independent
> of a particular session manager.  In other words, the scope of the
> feature which purpose is to save the global working set of a user is by
> essence broader than just the one of "our session manager".

A very good point. What I should have said here is that neither the
session manager nor (most) apps  manage to preserve state across
sessions. Firefox is a great example here and I actually depend quite
a lot on its behaviour these days (keeping tabs open as todo items
etc). Bringing this to other apps would be a win for everyone anyway,
regardless of also improving the power on/off situation.

Sam