On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 18:19 -0400, Jacob Beauregard wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone has looked into consistent separation of permanent > and > temporary state manipulations.
This is somewhat related to session management, I guess... AIUI, any properly session-managed app should already be capable of remembering and restoring its state on demand (not just when you log in/out, or quit/restart the app). And any proper X session manager should be able to save the state of the entire session, and restore it again later, at any time. So you could have multiple saved sessions, e.g. one for each project you're working on, that you can call up on demand. I don't think we've ever really looked into the need/requirements for consistent per-application state saving though (probably because we've never even had particularly great session management in GNOME)... as you suggest, there are probably some apps where it's more useful than others. And as GNOME begins to appear on mobile devices, where state-saving has long been the norm, it probably is something that deserves some thought. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
