Session restoration and autostart

[Lubos Lunak]

On Tuesday 13 of September 2005 23:25, David Jarvie wrote:
> On Monday 12 Sep 2005 14:40, Lubos Lunak wrote:
...
> >  Ok, so much for the theory. In practice it's not so, because those
> > features
> > are not implemented in ksmserver, and SM support in most apps is pretty
> > broken, probably because people don't really get this sessions thing. And
> > autostart seems to be much simpler to understand.
> >
> >  Either way, how exactly would you want those two work together? And,
> > while I'm at it, why do you definitely need autostart?
>
> I need to ensure that kalarm starts in the system tray at login, so that
> alarms are enabled. But I also want to restore any visible windows, to make
> it act like a normal session-restored program.

 Hmm. I suppose tray apps can't be simply normally session-managed just like 
all other applications *shrug*. Well, you can try doing the isRestored() fix, 
I don't think it can make it worse.

>
> > > How about simply making KApplication::isRestored() return true during a
> > > session manager activation, even if the program was already running
> > > before that? Would that work?
> >
> >  Technically, yes, it'd mean adding similar code like there's already for
> > startup notification ('asn'). In practice ... I have no idea *shrug*.

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