Re: [PATCH] Improve session management

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 16:26 +0100, Christian Neumair wrote:
>  
> > Am Montag, den 20.03.2006, 14:33 +0100 schrieb Alexander Larsson:
> >    
> > > On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 20:56 +0100, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > >      
> > > > The attached patch makes Nautilus store the state of previously open
> > > > windows on exit and reopen them in their mode when restarted through
> > > >        
> > > the
> > >      
> > > > session. It also adds support for storing a browser window's
> > > >        
> > > maximized
> > >      
> > > > state in addition to its geometry.
> > > >
> > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334215
> > > >        
> > > Isn't it a bit strange to save the session state in a file in the
> > > homedir. I though the idea was to save it in the session. Do other
> > > apps
> > > do things this way? 
> > >      
> > Most applications seem to encode its whole state into arguments which
> > are then added as argv to the restart command. Epiphany stores its
> > sessions in ~/.gnome2/epiphany/session_gnome-XXXXXX.xml, and adds a
> > --load-session command to the argv.
> >    
>
> This sounds like a better approach. This way you can have multiple
> sessions and all that
Is this really useful, considering that only one application instance is 
running? Maybe we can introduce a --load-session parameter that 
explicitly instructs Nautilus to load the single XML file? Also note 
that some people requested more possibilities for influencing the view 
parameters when opening Nautilus from a shell. They want to  be able to 
specify a selection, browser window dimensions, which type of window 
should be picked for a particular URI etc.