GNOME 2.24 session management

[tmetro-blu-5a1Jt6qxUNc at public.gmane.org (Tom Metro)]

Anyone notice that GNOME 2.24 (as shipped with Ubuntu 8.10 and FC 10) 
session management is broken? If you were pondering an upgrade to 8.10, 
and you make use of this feature, you might want to hold off.

It seems the GNOME developers decided the session management protocol 
needed a rewrite, and started down that path, but the developer working 
on it got busy elsewhere, and the code was left in a half finished 
state. (I haven't seen an explanation for why this wasn't done on a 
development branch.)


http://np237.livejournal.com/22014.html
   At least Ubuntu Intrepid and Fedora Core 10 ship with a session
   manager that:
     * is unable to restore applications;
     * kills applications without letting you save your work.

   It?s good to see such improvements on the session manager coming,
   and I?m really thankful to the gnome-session developers to work on
   it. What I wonder is:
     * How could it slip into a stable GNOME release?
     * How could two major distributions let it slip into a so-called
     stable release?

http://blogs.sun.com/mattman/entry/gnome_2_24_session_save1
   The latest version of the GNOME Desktop version 2.24.0 contains
   pretty much a complete rewrite of it's session handling module
   gnome-session.

   One of the features missing from this release is the ability to Save
   and Restore your session, now bear in mind the session saving and
   restoring was not completely functional in the first place,
   applications such as StarOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird all ignore
   the session management and thus could not be restored via
   gnome-session.

Tickets that cover this issue:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/249373
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552387

  -Tom

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