Gnome Session for Power Users
For two release cycles, gnome-session has deliberately not done session restoring on login. This is a huge stumbling block for power users, who have to spend a lot of time on each login re-setting up their work environment. This should be solved for 12.04.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- Jason Warner
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Steve Langasek
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- New
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
Whiteboard
= Session notes =
Session saving and restoring is a broad topic
- one usecase is: users who want to restore their windows positions and geometry
workaround:
http://
Known issues with the gnome-session code:
- gnome-session doesn't have "by session" saving, which leads to breakage for people switching between sessions (i.e gnome-shell and unity)
- lot of applications don't support session saving properly
In practice the feature leads to a bad experience for users
request for session management in gtk:
https:/
wiki page: http://
Work items:
[didrocks] add a gsettings key upstream to enable restoring the sessions by default
[slangasek] follow up with desktop team regarding compiz bugs
[Sweetshark] make libO support session saving (since it already knows how to restore after a crash, and already knows how to talk xsmp!) (there is a bug in LP, find it and link to blueprint)
