Problems with new session support

[Vadym Krevs]

2010/1/27 Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de>:
> 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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Why not treat a "session" like a solution in Visual Studio? I.e., you
can explicitly create one, add projects to it, build it, close it,
open another session, store the session file in a VCS, etc.

Regards,
Vadym