[247] in Athena User Interface
Re: session management
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Thu Jun 29 17:45:41 2000
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To: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
cc: tb@MIT.EDU, aui@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:51:25 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 17:45:37 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Selections from gsm/TODO in gnome-core-current:
<snip>
> * Ability to turn off SM entirely
> * Ability to checkpoint *now* and then use this as session -- no
> saving at log out (except in emergency)
<snip>
> * Write code to use timeouts in useful places.
> A session save shouldn't hang because of one losing client.
> [ This is complicated if we have clients which are also managers.
> We'd like the sub-manager to time out before the parent manager
> does. ]
<snip>
> I don't have a schedule for this work. Feel free to hack on it if you
> feel like it. Please contact me if you do so.
>
> Tom Tromey
> tromey@cygnus.com
Given that, maybe it makes sense for me to implement these three
items, since that will fix most objections, and we can decide later if
we want SM to be off by default or not.
Unless people object, I will plan on working on this starting
tomorrow. Tonight I will be tying up some other loose ends.
tibbetts
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