Re: location management vs. session management

[Bradford Hovinen <hovinen ximian com>]

On 30 Jul 2001 12:16:19 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Multi-session only provides feature 1, right, not the other two.
> 
> Let me toss out this idea: if there are no advantages to the archiver
> for 1, I think we should use the multi-session for that. Because the
> SM spec also allows saving window sizes, positions, etc. in addition
> to app config (and this has to be done by the window manager, we can't
> store it in apps).  Also, the SM spec is cross-desktop and
> cross-app. e.g. I'm trying to get it supported in Mozilla, because
> Sawfish's incorrect placement of Mozilla drives me crazy. ;-)

I can see your points here.

I know very little of the SM spec. Can you fill me in on what is
required for an application to support it? I want to make sure I
understand everything.

> Of course a specific app, such as a control panel, could use
> bonobo-conf to store the per-session data, etc.
> 
> If that sounds OK, the remaining question would be, how do features 2
> and 3 work in a multi-session world. That is, is the undo list
> per-session?
> 
> I guess 3 can't have a relation to multisession, since it's for system
> settings and sessions are per-user.
> 
> I really think the resulting UI will be scary if we have both
> multi-session and the separate location management concept, unless we
> can think of some logical interaction, so I think this is a pretty
> important issue to resolve. How do you think we should approach it?

I agree. Location management per se can really be just for the setup
tools.

> Havoc
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