Session Management Considerations

[Carsten Wolff]

On Saturday 04 May 2002 18:01, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> Here is another idea:
>
> we drop the whole idea with KDM support and command line arguments for
> startkde. Instead, we offer the following three options in the session
> manager's control center module:
>
>     On startup...
>
>       (X) restore previous session
>
>       ( ) start with saved session
>
>       ( ) start with empty session
>
>
> When "restore saved session" is selected, there will be an item "Save
> session" in the K-Menu.
>
> On logout we only save the current session if "restore previous
> session" is selected.
>
> The explicitely saved session never gets changed unless the user
> selects "Save session" in the K-menu.
>
> Come to think of it, this is probably the easier and better approach.
>
> But I  do not like the name saved session. Default session doesn't work
> either for the reasons you describe. What about "user defined session"?
> Or "Home session"?

Sounds fine as well, even though it doesn't cover user-group c' (see 
original post).
Hm. Would be nice to have more opinions on this, but core-devel seems to be 
too busy, flaming on cd-r-apps.

Carsten.

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