[199] in Athena User Interface
Re: Session mgmt, MOTDs, HOTDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Wed Jun 21 04:29:19 2000
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 21 Jun 2000 04:29:15 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Christopher D. Beland"'s message of "Wed, 21 Jun 2000 04:17:51 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1hlmzzwi78.fsf@oliver.mit.edu>
"Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU> writes:
> - There should be some clear way to explicitly decide which programs
> you want to launch on startup, persistently, vs. the ability to
> leave windows up on the screen for your next login. Right now,
> there's no distinction made here.
Uh, I can't understand this. I thought "launch on startup" was the
method used to achieve "leave...up...for your next login".
> - There should be a graphical interface to explicitly starting
> session-managed programs. Right now, you can add
> non-session-managed programs in the Session Properties capplet, but
> managed programs can only be added either by starting the program
> and saving your session (which is awkward and confusing) or by
> hand-editing ~./gnome/session.
I thought the Session Properties capplet was perfectly capable of
dealing with session managed properties. At least, my Debian Gnome
login seems to list put them there.
> - Only windows started from the Gnome Panel will reappear on next
> login if you click on "save this setup" in the logout dialog.
> This is a serious user confusion issue.
I agree, but this might be Really Hard to do.
