GNOME session saving dropped in natty

Bryce Harrington bryce at canonical.com
Fri Jan 21 18:14:51 UTC 2011


On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 07:36:55AM -0800, Rick Spencer wrote:
> 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.

Nor does suspend...  ;-)



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