[Bug 223285] New: Don't lose session state on a crash

[Michael Schuerig]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=223285

           Summary: Don't lose session state on a crash
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Debian testing
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: michael at schuerig.de


Version:            (using KDE 4.3.4)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

Sessions crash. It's been a fact of life and it will remain so in the future.
The fault can lie with any number of components inside and outside of KDE.

As of KDE 4.3, the state of a session, roughly, which applications and windows
are open, is only saved (unless prevented by a preference setting) when the
session is orderly closed. Obviously, a crash is the opposite of orderly.

After a crash, when the user starts a new session, what they get is not the
last state they've seen in their previous, ill-fated session. Rather, the state
of the last orderly terminated session is resurrected. For people who regularly
put their computers to sleep instead of shutting them down, this state can be
days, even weeks, old.

This behavior is at best counter-intuitive and at times rather annoying. At any
rate, it destroys work the user has done and does it in such a devious way that
it can't even be prevented by regular backups.

So, my plea is, to not only save session state when the session is closed, but
rather do it periodically, say every few minutes.

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