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Subject: Re: Causes of session management problems in Plasma 5
From: Thomas_Lübking <thomas.luebking () gmail ! com>
Date: 2015-11-26 7:55:19
Message-ID: 3d9b6e18-50af-4a36-a8ee-a34241c614c4 () gmail ! com
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On Donnerstag, 26. November 2015 05:19:34 CEST, Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
> What do you mean with "konsole asks"? Things like "You have
> multiple tabs open, are you sure you want to quit?" and "You
> have unsaved changes"?
Yes.
> If so, the scenario you describe is bad regardless of session
> restoration.
Yes. Unfortunaltely.
> If konsole has to ask the user and the user has a
> chance to say no and cancel the logout at that point, then
> kwrite shouldn't have exited yet!
That's what the spec says, but the ksmserver change suggestion is about buggy clients \
that behave exactly this way.
> If "app canceling logout" is a thing, then logout should feel
> transactional to the user. Either logout happens and all apps
> exit, or logout doesn't happen and nothing exits.
Yes. That's what the spec says ...
> I guess the implementation of that would be: all apps should be given a
> chance to ask their questions and approve or stop the logout
That'S exactly what happens, but ...
> before *any* app exits.
We cannot stop process from doing stupid things, like exiting in the wrong moment.
> This is how MS Windows works, by the way (or used to work).
No, it's how not buggy applications work on windows.
Cheers,
Thomas
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