Re: Session management?

[Hassan Aurag <aurag crm umontreal ca>]

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On 7/1/00, 6:39:21 AM, Jorgen Pehrson <jp@spektr.eu.org> wrote regarding 
Re: Session management?:


> 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 don't know about what is supposed to be. But I agree it is dumb.

 However you can go around it by specifying the pref file to read when 
starting applet. Under python this is easy, since you always have to give 
the path to the config file anyways. I don't know how to do this in C though.



> 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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