future plans

[Tom Tromey]

>> Gnome's session management is just XSMP.  There is an (ugly) X library
>> to help you do this; Gnome just wraps it with a nicer API.  (At some
>> point session management and configuration storage might tie together
>> somehow.  That would be harder to emulate.)

Syd> I don't know what "session management" means.

When you log out, Gnome can save the state of all applications (all
those which support session management) and then later restart the
session where you left off.

The idea is applications will remember what documents were open,
cursor positions, etc.

Tom