On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 11:34 +0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > the reason it's not set as a blocker is that questions on session > closing has never been something working reliably, only gedit is > blocking the session in the GNOME desktop for example so that's not > something user have been relying on, that would still something nice to > get fixed though
That this never worked reliably is simply not true. With the old GNOME session manager (<=2.22), programs supporting the old XSMP protocol (Firefox, OpenOffice, Gimp, and most programs using the GNOME libraries) were indeed able to block session shutdown and ask you if you wanted to save work (you can test it on Hardy). Also, for programs not supporting XSMP, the session manager would ask you to terminate them by hand before shutting down. The new GNOME session manager will just kill all running programs without asking. This is very dangerous and will certainly affect people who (maybe unconsciously) still rely on the old behavior. Regarding gedit, it is one of the few programs that can block session shutdown with the new session manager, and it seems to do this incorrectly, by the way. With the old session manager, it used to work well, as far as I remember. -- [intrepid] no prompt to save open work on shutdown/restart https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276134 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
