Tried Pulse Audio Again--No Good For A11y

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 23.09.08 14:11, Les Mikesell (lesmikesell at gmail.com) wrote:

>
> Colin Walters wrote:
>>> As far as I know we again allow multiple simultaneous X logins by the
>>> same user.
>> If we do, it's broken.
>
> Why shouldn't I be able to do as many xdm logins as I want as the same 
> user?  This isn't an X issue.

Because many apps don't distuingish state from configuration cleanly.

For example: you configure your gnome panel to include a clock
applet. Then you open another session and add a network monitor applet
to it. What do you expect from this? That both panels will always stay
perfectly in sync and the network monitor applet is transparently
added to the first session as well? When you log out from both, what
happens when you log in again, do you get the panel layout from the
first session or from the second session?

Also, most WMs support multiple desktops, which is basically the same
as multiple sessions.

The question is: is it worth bothering at all with questions like the
panel question above? Since the feature is redundant we might simply
say: forget it, let's disable multiple logins and the problem is
gone. 

Lennart

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