On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 08:03 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
Rex Dieter wrote:
>
> Given that session management is still largely a work-in-progress
> and is
> (imo) far from something that "just works" (1). I'd like the kde-
> sig to
> consider disabling session management by default in f24.
>
> The details being that we'd likely effectively set
> systemsettings5-> startup&shutdown -> session management ->
"start
> with
> empty session"
> (or possibly "restore manually saved session")
> rather than default "Restore previous session"
>
> I suggest this because I feel that default-enabled features should
> give
> users the expectation that they actually work.
To put this another way, does anyone feel that session management
works well
enough for a majority of our users (despite all the current issues)?
No. It's funny you should ask, because I was just about to post on this
topic when your mail appeared, so I'll just paste it in here:
This was discussed at one time (
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/piperma
il/kde/2015-April/014478.html) but never got anywhere.
In brief: I use Session Restore under KDE. I have a number of desktops
and most windows are restored correctly on the correct desktops. The
ones that appear to have problems are non-KDE apps. Specifically:
* Firefox starts on the correct desktop but with the "This is
embarassing" error page. On clicking the button, the extra window
starts up correctly with all its tabs, but on the current desktop
rather the assigned one.
* Chrome doesn't start at all. When started manually, it fires up all
the correct windows and tabs but on the current desktop instead of the
assigned ones.
I have manually configured the desktop settings for these apps, but of
course that assumes the app lives on only one desktop.
I am now on kf5-plasma-5.19.0-2.fc23.x86_64, using SDDM and Kwin. I'm
open to suggestions but have basically given up on hearing from the
developers (see
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343875).
poc