Re: Session management?

[Jorgen Pehrson <jp spektr eu org>]

On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Iain wrote:

> 
> > Is this the way it is supposed to work? If it is, the session managment is
> > a bit, um, functionally challenged IMHO.
> >
> > I can't believe I'm the first person to be surprised my this
> > behaviour? How have other solved this? With standard gnome functions or
> > something else?
> 
> You're surprised that control-C just terminates the program without
> running the shut down code? I wouldn't be.
> 
> The panel sends a save session signal every so often to the applets, but if
> you just terminate the applet how is it supposed to know when to save
> sessions
> (unless you setup a signal handler to catch ctrl-c...)
> 
> iain

Well duh. Of course I made sure that the applet had saved its state
before I removed it. But that doesn't matter since applets obviuosly has
no way of restoring their state once you remove them from the panel. They
will get a new ~/.gnome/panel.d/default/Applet_???_Extern each time.

And I know now that that is the expected behaviour.


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