saving the desktop?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 12:15 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 00:59 -0500, Jason Farrell wrote:
> >> Great session saving/restoration -- for the desktop, konsole, and
> >> konqueror
> >> -- is the *primary* feature that has always kept me coming back to
> >> KDE.
> >> KDE's got a ton of drawbacks when compared to Gnome's tight
> >> integration with
> >> Fedora, but booting back up and having *all*[1] two dozen of your apps
> >> restored to their respective workspaces is a killer feature. Sorry to
> >> hear
> >> Gnome's gone backwards from what little session it used to save.
> >> 
> >> [1] except for a brief period in KDE 4.1.0 when session saving was
> >> broken.
> > 
> > You mean it's been fixed? I assume you're referring to the missing
> > "explicit session save" functionality that KDE 3.5 had. I still don't
> > see it in 4.1.2.
> 
> The GUI is missing, but this works (one line):
> 
> qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer \
> org.kde.KSMServerInterface.saveCurrentSession 
> 
> + setting "Restore saved session" preference.

So it's not a lack of core funcionality, as would might think from some
of the comments on https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155341 (which
try to claim that this isn't really a bug), it's just that no-one has
bothered to put in the button?

After nearly a *year*?

poc