Re: Window History Placement

[Benjamin Kahn <xkahn ximian com>]

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 10:27, Benjamin Kahn wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
> 
> On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 18:23, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > So this is the "WM saves" strategy, which has the advantage that the WM
> > controls what gets saved, but doesn't allow to keep history across WM
> > changes (unless we standardize file formats and locations...). This is
> > probably an acceptable price to pay for getting this to work reliably
> > for all applications. 
> 
> 	Yes.  I thought about trying to standardize the file format and
> location when I started out, but decided against it for the moment.  The
> file format I'm using is quite simple however, and could easily be moved
> to a common location.  (Currently I'm storing it in
> .metacity/window-history)

The file format, as it stands now, is:

<metacity_history>
  <window class="XTerm" name="xterm" title="/foo/bar" role="blah" type="normal" num="0" updated="1039026079">
    <geometry x="100" y="100" width="200" height="200" gravity="NorthWestGravity"/>
    <sticky/>
    <maximized/>
  </window>
  <window save_id="Some String" updated="1039026093">
    <fullscreen/>
  </window>
  :
</metacity_session>

Obviously, if this were to be cross-WM, the top level tag:
"metacity_history" should be "window_history" or simply "history".  I
have very little opinion about /where/ the file should be stored.