Start new session...

[Thomas Zander]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 08:05:28PM +0200, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> On Thursday 10 October 2002 19:47, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > That is not what I am talking about, and it seems it again goes wrong on
> > usage of the word 'session'.
> > Please accept that KDE has used 'session' for ages for the
> > session-management stuff (saving a state when KDE shuts down) and we can't
> > change that.  If I ever talk about sessions I talk about the sessions KDE
> > uses.
> 
> If you login you start a session. If you logout you close your session. If you 
> login twice on different virtual terminals you start two sessions.
> 
> Sounds pretty logical to me actually, much better than using 'screen' or 
> 'desktop' at least.

I'm not arguing this point. I am talking about the fact that session management
is a name everyone uses right now.

I am worried that naming these things sessions will give you the problem that
on different versions different behavior is shown for sessions.

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Thomas Zander   zander at planescape.com
We are what we pretend to be