Re: GNUstep and session management

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2005-10-09 10:24:29 +0300 Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@brainstorm.co.uk> 
wrote:

> On 2005-10-08 14:16:35 +0000 Gregory John Casamento 
> <greg_casamento@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Saso,
>> 
>> --- Sa¹o Kiselkov <diablos@manga.sk> wrote:
>> 
>>> What I'm trying to say is: don't worry about peanuts. We have far more
>>> important and urgent issues which _DO_ require serious and competent 
>>> decisions ASAP (e.g. printing is absolutely crappy (even output to a PS 
>>> file yields terrible results), audio support is far from existant, and we 
>>> don't even have a good IDE or workspace app!).
>> 
>> GWorkspace.app isn't any good??????   Geez.   My usual response to such 
>> things
>> is that if you think it's no good, then by all means write another one 
>> which is
>> better.
> 
> I really like GWorkspace ... but it doesn't handle session management (ie 
> terminating all applications when it quits) ... perhaps it might be added as 
> an option in GWorkspace?  I'm not sure all users would want it to do that 
> though.

I too. Adding a preference? (default off)

> BTW, I fixed some gui library problems with termination in the situation 
> where multiple copies of the same application have been started, and hacked 
> in a trivial tool 'gclose' to demonstrate application termination.