Re: GNUstep and session management

[Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.]

On 2005-10-10 14:49:16 +0800 Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@brainstorm.co.uk> 
wrote:

> On 2005-10-09 11:13:01 +0000 Enrico Sersale <enrico@dtedu.net> wrote:
> 
>> 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)
> 
> Perhaps ... but another option I thought of would be to get the alert panel 
> displayed when you quit from GWorkspace to provide a third option.  At the 
> moment it says 'Do you really want to quit?' with Yes/No buttons.  It could 
> say 'Yes'/'All Application'/'No' ... so that you an choose at the point where 
> you confirm that you are shutting down GWorkspace.
> I think that might be nicer than a hidden user default.
> 
> 
> 
[snipped...]

Do we really need session management? Right now i just let windowmaker shut 
down everything and then let Login.App shutdown the machine. Thats almost ideal 
for me right now.