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On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:00:33PM -0500, Tom Metro wrote: > I'm setting up a new desktop and am at the point of deciding whether to > venture away from the familiar GNOME to KDE (4.x). Sure, it's easy > enough to just try KDE in theory, but in practice it'll take a bit of > time investment to customize it, so I'm doing some research. (I've > already toyed around with it for a while via a Kubuntu live CD.) > > One feature that might be compelling enough to warrant a switch is > session management. In GNOME, there are sessions, but the GNOME > affiliated applications don't seem to be so smart about saving their > internal state, particularly GNOME Terminal, which seems to remember > nothing other than the quantity of windows and a few aesthetic > attributes. GNOME sessions, in my experience, also were a bit flaky. > After the first reboot, you'd get most things restored, then the next > time you'd get only a few, etc. > > I've read that KDE is better in this area, and when I previously brought > up the topic of xterm sessions David Rosenstrauch recommended Konsole. I > toyed with Konsole, but didn't put it into daily use. It probably > warrants a second look. > > Anyone have comments on their experiences with KDE session management in > general? Hi Tom, I have had those exact issue with gnome terminal(gt) and that is one of the major reasons I use KDE. The Konsole app is far better than gnome terminal. I have pointed out the problem with gt (multiple times) to gnome folks years ago but nothing has been done. When developing I pretty much do everything in konsole so I don't have any other good comparative experiences to add. I do use a few gnome apps from time to time. Jeff Kinz
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