saving the desktop?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 13:41 -0500, Jason Farrell wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
>         On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 13:18 -0500, Jason Farrell wrote:
>         > Yes, *manual* session save/restore went away in KDE4 (even
>         though the
>         > manual save option remains in the GUI),
>         
>         
>         It doesn't, that's what we're talking about. The GUI has the
>         option of
>         *restoring from a manually-saved session*, but no way to
>         actually save
>         it manually!
> 
> Right. I wrote it backwards. Restore Save or Save Restore? :)
> 
> In any case, I get the feeling that a lot of people just don't care as
> much about saving their desktop session as much as they do their
> browser's. It's also not an expectation carried over from Windows,
> since the only thing you can really save/restore there is file
> Explorer windows.
I would not deny this thought ;)

Today's devs and users seem to be keen on mimicking windows and adding
"kool gimicks", ... some years ago, a session-manager which is not able
to save/restore desktops/session would have been a release blocker.

Ralf