On Jan 7, 2008 11:23 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > I notice that Gnome's ability to save the desktop is almost > non-existent in the Gnome that comes with Solaris 10 9/07. CDE > handles this perfectly, restoring every application (including legacy > ones like xterm) to where it was before, including to the correct > workspace, and even logging into a remote machine if necessary. > > Gnome displays a one-line (non-resizable) scrolling window of the many > applications it says it won't be able to restore when the user logs > out. Then when the user logs in, a vast number of applications are > thrown up on the first workspace, but many applications (including the > all-vital calendar which must work so you don't lose your job) are > missing. This is quite a mess. > > Does the Gnome desktop work better in this regard for the Express > version, or in a forthcoming OpenSolaris version?
Not as far as I know. GNOME, unlike CDE (from what I understand), relies on applications to provide special support for the "save desktop" feature. For those applications that do provide it, most provide rudimentary support at best. GNOME itself also provides only very basic support. Sadly, I've seen this behaviour for a long time using GNOME since the 1.x days. I'm fairly certain it isn't any better in any version, -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
