On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 23:34 +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > In MacOS X when the user closes his session all the applications are > notified and if some of them still have unsaved documents, they ask him > what to do. If he doesn't answer (there is a timeout) or if he hit > cancel button in the save dialog, the closing of the session is > canceled. > > It should be nice if something similar were implemented in Gnome using > DBus or something like that.
We actually have a session manager. It uses an X protocol to communicate from memory. Look at the GnomeClient API in libgnomeui > For example, you start typing an email and then you search something on > Internet or you switch to another virtual desktop and forget the email. > Then you close the session, the email is lost. If Gnome asked to save > before closing the session you could at least save it. I don't know why it isn't used. Perhaps someone else can shine some light on the reason. --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
