GNOME session saving dropped in natty
Rick Spencer
rick.spencer at canonical.com
Fri Jan 21 15:36:55 UTC 2011
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 16:16 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Vishnoo [2011-01-21 20:41 +0530]:
> > Is there a bug filed for this, which we could follow?
>
> I don't think we should bother. Session saving can't ever be perfect.
> You won't ever get back things like your unsaved current documents,
> undo buffers, network connections (chat), etc, and those are much more
> interesting than the position of your windows (not that GNOME would or
> could ever get that right even). I think this has always been a
> half-baked misfeature.
>
> For proper session saving/restoring there is suspend and hibernate.
Well, there is suspend. Hibernate does not exactly work perfectly for
many peole.
Cheers, Rick
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