future of xfce session management

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:29:26 +0200
Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/7/21 Brian J. Tarricone <brian at tarricone.org>:
> > Apps > 50 are Any Old Random Apps, and we have no idea if they're
> > going to play nice or not, or if they're going to delay startup
> > because they forgot to register with the session manager, or if
> > they even support session management at all (autostart apps will
> > fall into this category).  At that point a splash screen might just
> > say "Starting Other Applications", wait 750ms, and go away.  Or at
> > least just wait until the last app has been spawned, regardless of
> > whether or not it notifies us or not (and it could still write out
> > the app names to the splash screen if it so chooses).  I think the
> > splash screen is really only important for showing that the
> > *desktop* is starting; once the WM, desktop, and panel are up, we
> > assume the user can -- and wants to -- get some Real Work[tm] done,
> > so the at that point splash screen will just get in the way.
> 
> Just saying, we should at least write down how the splash screen
> behaves, because you did not mention it in the text and for some of us
> it's an important piece of the session manager.

Aren't desktop splash screens doomed to die with desktop login times
being less than 3 seconds?

Brian, all in all this sounds very good. I don't know too much about
session management in its details but it sounds sane.

  - Jannis

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