Problems with new session support

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 27.01.10 18:36:48, Milian Wolff wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27. January 2010 18:27:48 David Nolden wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch 27 Januar 2010 18:17:15 schrieb Milian Wolff:
> > > On Monday, 18. January 2010 14:28:28 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'll be filing bugreports about this tomorrow or wednesday, but wanted
> > > > to check here wether some of this is intentional:
> > > >
> > > > Is the session name prepended to the project list? That would explain
> > > > why I have a "default" session which is not automatically opened when
> > > > loading kdevelop. If not then how do I make another session the
> > > > "default" now that the session config dialog doesn't exist anymore?
> > >
> > > Apparently the session name is most of the time just empty. Only the
> > >  default session has any name at all (i.e. "default"). I just wanted to
> > > add a "--sessions"  switch to KDevelop that would output all available
> > > session names, and well - all my sessions have an empty name... The
> > > exception is the "default" one.
> > >
> > > We should at least give incremental names like "Session #1" or similar,
> > > so they are easily selectable... I'll now change my patch for now so that
> > > it outputs the projects in that sessions and the ID, since that's
> > > apprently also supported by the existing "-s" switch.
> > 
> > I think it would be ugly to have "Session 1 - Projects", "Session 2 -
> > Projects" in the menu, as the "Session X" says nothing at all, it would
> >  just clutter the menu.
> > 
> > If anyone has a "default" session he should delete that, it is just an
> > artifact of the old session support. The real default session is always the
> > one that was used last.
> > 
> > If you want your sessions to have names, you can simply use "Rename
> >  Session" to give it a name, and from then on you can also use the
> >  command-line "-s" switch to pick a specific session by name.
> 
> And for that I would need to start every single one of my sessions, just to 
> give them a name. This totally blows imo... I'd like to have the old dialog 
> back...

FACK. I've only setup 3 sessions so far and the first thing I did was
giving them useful names. Either we enforce giving a name, by asking for
it when switching the session or we generate one automatically.

Andreas

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