Feature idea/request for KDE4: checkpointing

[Redeeman]

On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 13:21 +0100, Richard Moore wrote:
> On 7/28/06, Kasper Sandberg <redeeman at metanurb.dk> wrote:
> > I stumbled across http://cryopid.berlios.de/ and tested it. It worked
> > with nano, however not with kde applications. Though it left me thinking
> > that this indeed is a cool concept, and that it could be used as a very
> > neat feature on the desktop.
> 
> This tool doesn't seem to be maintained any more and has a large
> number of restrictions on what an application can be doing. I am also
yes, i wasnt suggesting using this particular utility, clearly something
without cryopids limitation would have to be written
> highly dubious about its ability to handle resources in the X server
> like pixmaps etc. The application is also linux only which reduces
> it's use to KDE further. It's a nice idea, but I think this sort of
> facility is better built at an application level rather than into the
> framework - think autosave and session management rather than process
> freezing.
yes, this is probably true, allthough saving a snapshot of a process
would have a few advantages over session support.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Rich.
> 
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Redeeman <redeeman at metanurb.dk>