GNOME session saving dropped in natty

[Christopher James Halse Rogers]

On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 03:09 -0500, Jacky Alcine wrote:
> On 01/21/2011 01:14 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > 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...  ;-)
> >
> Is there a way of flashing the loaded applications in memory and all of
> those handles to disk and just loading it back?
> 

You've pretty much just described “hibernate”.  When it works, that is
☺.
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