On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Martin Langhoff <[email protected]> wrote: > Attached is a trivial patch that handles gracefully the situation > where cwd does not exist anymore or is no longer accessible to the > olpc user. >
frankly, i think the whole state-saving notion in Terminal (and other terminal emulators i've seen) is flawed, and a bad idea, for exactly this sort of reason. shell sessions are _not_ restartable without far more work than is being done now: enviroment variables are lost, background jobs are lost, aliases are gone, mount points are different, etc etc. unlike the relatively closed application environment that most activities live in, a terminal shell has the whole system as its "current state". far better to not pretend to be restoring something which cannot be done -- the current behavior gives a very misleading impression of how shells work. if one wants to preserve state, the solution is obvious: don't kill Terminal in the first place -- just switch away from it. (i understand the desire for restoring scrollback -- that's useful history. but i think the old text should be greyed out, and/or there should be a big "*End of previous session scrollback*" message separating it from the new text.and current directory should not be restored.) paul > Without it, > - mount a usb disk > - open Terminal.xo, change directory to /media/my-usb-disk/ > - close Terminal.xo > - unmount / remove usb disk > - try to open Terminal.xo => fails to start > > cheers, > > > > m -- =--------------------- paul fox, pgf at laptop.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
