GNOME 2.24 session management

[Derek Atkins]

Yeah, I noticed.  It's annoying.  It pissed me off, too..  Had I realized
ahead of time I would have stopped at FC9 and waited until F11.  :-(

-derek

Quoting Tom Metro <tmetro-blu-5a1Jt6qxUNc at public.gmane.org>:

> Anyone notice that GNOME 2.24 (as shipped with Ubuntu 8.10 and FC 10)
> session management is broken? If you were pondering an upgrade to 8.10,
> and you make use of this feature, you might want to hold off.
>
> It seems the GNOME developers decided the session management protocol
> needed a rewrite, and started down that path, but the developer working
> on it got busy elsewhere, and the code was left in a half finished
> state. (I haven't seen an explanation for why this wasn't done on a
> development branch.)
>
>
> http://np237.livejournal.com/22014.html
>   At least Ubuntu Intrepid and Fedora Core 10 ship with a session
>   manager that:
>     * is unable to restore applications;
>     * kills applications without letting you save your work.
>
>   It’s good to see such improvements on the session manager coming,
>   and I’m really thankful to the gnome-session developers to work on
>   it. What I wonder is:
>     * How could it slip into a stable GNOME release?
>     * How could two major distributions let it slip into a so-called
>     stable release?
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/mattman/entry/gnome_2_24_session_save1
>   The latest version of the GNOME Desktop version 2.24.0 contains
>   pretty much a complete rewrite of it's session handling module
>   gnome-session.
>
>   One of the features missing from this release is the ability to Save
>   and Restore your session, now bear in mind the session saving and
>   restoring was not completely functional in the first place,
>   applications such as StarOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird all ignore
>   the session management and thus could not be restored via
>   gnome-session.
>
> Tickets that cover this issue:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/249373
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552387
>
>  -Tom
>
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