activity switching during logout

Chani chanika at gmail.com
Fri Dec 3 10:00:29 CET 2010


On December 3, 2010 00:51:29 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Thursday, December 2, 2010, Chani wrote:
> > > hell, maybe I'm coming at this from the wrong side: the user can
> > > trigger this manually themselves by trying to switch to a closed
> > > activity while some app is asking to save. Working around it in kwin
> > > wouldn't stop the potential dataloss if a user plays with the
> > > activitymanager during logout. So really, this should be solved in
> > > ActivityManager. but how?
> > 
> > hrm.
> > having kwin not switch activities still doesn't solve *this* problem.
> > guess
> 
> it does if such a window is associated (even temporarily) with the new
> activity.
> 
> if the rule is simply this: "If on (sub-)session close, a window enters a
> session-close-confirmation state, move that window into the now-current
> activity [until the confirmation state is complete]", i think it covers all
> possible situations.

nope, read the paragraph again. I was talking about how the user could trigger 
it without kwin being involved. meta-q, click closed activity, boom.

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Chani
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