Re: session manager help

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:46:03PM +0100, Calum Benson wrote: 
> Personally I still think a user should be able to turn off all their
> panels if they want to (without having to click through any safety
> alerts)... the harder piece of the puzzle is giving them an easy way to
> turn them back on again without (a) resorting to the command line or (b)
> losing everything that was on them before.

That solution works too. Still, losing your window manager or 
desktop background shouldn't be allowed.
 
> - The annoying "the following programs won't be restarted when you next
> log in" dialog is, well, annoying... at the very least it should time
> out so you don't wander away from your terminal thinking you've logged
> out when you haven't.  Better would be if it popped up next time you
> logged in rather than the last time you logged out, when it's rather
> more relevant.  Perhaps also, since it knows what apps you were running
> (but not what you were doing with them), it could at least try to
> restart them for you even if it can't reload whatever docuements etc.
> you were looking at, and not bother you with the dialog at all :)

This is metacity's dialog, so would not be the fault of whoever fixes
the SM. ;-)

Havoc