Session client support in libxfce4ui

[Olivier Fourdan]

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Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> I'd prefer no session management support at all in libxfce4ui.  libexo
> has a simple x11r5-type implementation, which should be fine for most
> apps that just want to set a restart command.
> 
> Otherwise, I'm at least considering dropping session management support
> from xfdesktop, and maybe any other apps I work on as well.  There are
> just too many reports of people losing xfdesktop, or xfce4-panel, or
> whatever, and then somehow these apps fall out of the session, and
> there are just too many problems.
> 
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> 
> Barring that, I think I'd actually rather put xfdesktop etc. in
> autostart rather than continuing to use session management.


I beg to disagree, proper session management is important and older
sessions management ala X11R5 is just crap.

Removing features is not really a good way to fix them, IMHO.

As for apps being dropped from the session, this could be handled by the
session manager (making sure that a given set of apps are always
restored, this is what gnome session does I think).

Anyway, if an apps is not saved along with the session, it could be very
well because the application has quit (or crashed?) and unregistered
from the session manager before the session get saved?

Cheers,
Olivier.
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