future plans

[Syd Polk]

At 01:40 PM 11/21/00 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >> 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

Source-Navigator does this, to a limited extent. It's buggy as all get out.


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