Re: Concept attached + ideas

["Andre \"Osku\" Schmidt" <andre osku schmidt osku de>]

On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 21:19 +0000, Jimmy Forrester-Fellowes wrote:

> The workspaces could be saved so when you boot up your computer you
> can return to a workspace just the way it was when you left it. 

this is exactly what i wanted to have since i've used computers with
multiple windows. (hey, i started with *-DOS:)

but, isn't this still a problem in the application ?
(haven't looked/followed on this since years)

some apps do and some don't save information (or allow control from
outside) on what files were open, where the cursor was, undo/redo,
etc... (i assume window positioning can globally be saved by the window
manager)

and to tell the apps which saved "workspace" to open, i fear that it
will never happen that major floss apps agree on an api to control this
from outside. (even lash[0] is not much used, and there are not so many
apps in audio space)

but i really hope i'm just too deep in my cave and missed something, and
it's already (at least, in near future) possible to save the states of
an application in a workspace/file/what ever...

<obligatory web search>

found a really interesting tool: http://cryopid.berlios.de/
sounds like a solution to use right away, hmm...

cheers
.andre

[0] http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lash

ps. i have been playing with the idea to make these "workspaces" in a
virtual machine (one workspace = one virtual machine), so i would have
100% the same workspace as i left it (cause the vm is just "freezed").
but waiting for like 4 OS'es to boot _after_ the main OS, doesn't sound
much fun...