[243] in Athena User Interface
session management
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Thompson)
Wed Jun 28 17:16:58 2000
Message-Id: <200006282116.RAA15214@rat-thing.mit.edu>
To: aui@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:16:55 -0400
From: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
I have been hacking on this gnome stuff for about two months now, and
I cannot seem to figure out how session management works (or fails to).
This does not give me great hope that our users will be able to, given
that they probably have better things to do with their time than pore
over gsm source. Two problems I have with the current setup:
1) If I launch gmc, I can't make it stop respawning without going to
the session management capplet. I never _asked_ for it to be
respawned, so that is pretty obnoxious.
2) Non-gnome programs take a ridiculous amount of time to launch, while
the session manager waits for them to respond to some gnomish stuff.
For example, on my spiffy linux box, menugrovel takes about 20 seconds
on the splash screen. It runs in less than one on the command line.
yak
