saving the desktop?

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 19 November 2008 18:02:53 Jerry Amundson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Jerry Amundson <jamundso at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> >
> > <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 15:31 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >>> I use "restore previous session", which works well for me, but I'll
> >>> see what I can find out for you.
> >>
> >> That won't work for me because I don't always want the full desktop, so
> >> I start a basic setup then fire up slow-to-start things like Evolution
> >> or Firefox as needed. (For example I need to run "pkill gnome-key"
> >> before starting Evolution. I know I could write a small script etc. etc.
> >> but that's not really the point).
> >>
> >> I use "restore manually saved session" because I went through the
> >> rigmarole I described earlier in order to save it. That's what I'd like
> >> to change.
> >
> > That seems to be another KDE 3->4 regression.
>
> Or, if you're a KDE developer, it's just a wish - unbelievable!
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155341
>
It would have been smarter to continue reading the thread.

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Implemented by revision 808087 in openSUSE Plasma branch (not performance 
optimized though :-). 
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Stephan, will you backport the Suse fix for this when trunk is 4.2? Thanks in 
advance! 
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BTW: I just added the apps I want via the Autostart KCM instead of saving a 
session. That also has the advantages that you can autostart KDE3 apps (the 
session manager only remembers the apps base name, not the full path, so if 
you eg. had Kopete from KDE3 running, the KDE4 version will show up next 
time). 
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Running openSUSE 11 KDE4 Factory (4.0.99...) there is now a Save Session 
option in the "Leave" kickoff menu tab. So for me, this one is solved. 
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i don't have this on my mandriva, so this doesn't seems to be on upstream KDE 
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Save Session still missing on kubuntu with kde 4.1 rc1 (4.0.98; from the 
http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu repository). further, in 
the kde.org 4.1 feature plan: 
http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.1_Feature_Plan i found no mention of 
desktop session save - not marked as DONE nor TODO nor IN PROGRESS - just not 
on the map. nor in the 4.2_Feature_Plan! maybe i missed it, but if not, this 
is not a good sign. 
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I added it to the TechBase (thanks Aaron for pointing me to the article): 
http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/Is_KDE_4.1_for_you#Session_management 
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So a fix is known.  It's implemented in OpenSUSE, but it looks as though the 
originator of the fix has not backported it for use upstream.

Anne
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