Re: Session management?

[Jorgen Pehrson <jp spektr eu org>]

On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Hassan Aurag wrote:

> 
> 
>  Ok,
> 
>  I forgot you were talking about an applet. This is either a weird 
> feature or a plain bug. Does the panel remove the applet somehow? Because 
> if it does, then no amount of info saving will change anything.
> 
>  Proof: there is no gnome applet that remembers anything once removed 
> from panel. You have to start from scratch configuring it.
> 
>  So check the applet actually isn't removed from panel before panel exit.
> 

Ah ok. Since I'm in the process of developing my applet the simplest way
to restart it to test the session saving was to remove it from the panel
with Ctrl-C and then start it again.

I now tried instead to close my X session and then when I restarted GNOME
it remembered my settings.


Is this the way it is supposed to work? If it is, the session managment is
a bit, um, functionally challenged IMHO.

I can't believe I'm the first person to be surprised my this
behaviour? How have other solved this? With standard gnome functions or
something else?


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