Shawn Walker wrote: > Karl Dalen wrote: >> I also wonder why Gnome does not support saving and restoring the >> terminal >> windows you have opened when you log out and in again like CDE does. > > GNOME's session management functionality has languished in relative > obscurity. It is apparently of such low interest to the GNOME user base > that properly implementing has not been a priority.
Indeed, it was broken completely in 2.24. > I suspect this is because other platforms don't have similar > functionality, so developers feel compelled to work on more 'visible' > functionality (and fixes). That's just wild speculation on my part > though ... The feeling I got was that XSMP is quite ugly/poorly documented and nobody wants to implement it in new code. There is a new D-Bus session API under development, that will also have an XSMP adapter for legacy code, but I don't know if it's implemented yet. Some relevant wiki pages: http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement/GnomeSession http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement/NewGnomeSession http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement/Todo http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement/NotesOnXSMP -- James Andrewartha
