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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 160162] New window/tab should ask for profile if there are more
From:       Robert Knight <robertknight () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-04-11 4:58:00
Message-ID: 20080411045800.13256.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From robertknight gmail com  2008-04-11 06:57 -------
> The big difference is that a browser ties the state to the location, all the other \
> apps do not. 

That isn't right.  Browsers keep site-specific state information in cookies, which \
are not kept in bookmarks.  Some websites may encode state information in URLs but I \
would not expect bookmarking my banking site to remember my authentication state or \
expect bookmarking a product page in a shop to remember the contents of my shopping \
basket.

I think it might actually be useful to have a feature which could record the complete \
state of a browsing session or a terminal session that could be replayed in future \
but you would have to pick a new name (ie. not "Bookmarks") for the feature to avoid \
breaking expectations based on existing use of the term.  Both on the web and in the \
terminal there are technical hurdles to implementing such a feature.

In the web, the current state is often held partly by the browser and partly by the \
web site.  Quite often the browser stores only a unique ID and everything else is \
recorded by the web site in a database somewhere.  

In the terminal, the current state is mostly held by a process outside of Konsole \
which may well be running on another computer.  The accessible information is limited \
to a local processes' /proc/pid/status file.  So the current bookmarks implementation \
represents the best of what I can do within the confines of Konsole.


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