On Sun, 2025-02-09 at 14:27 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Sun, Feb 9, 2025 at 6:25 AM Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 2025-02-08 at 19:46 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
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I haven't used Mate so have no opinion. To me the major weakness of KDE/Wayland (as a long-term KDE user) is the lack of true Session Restore, i.e. being able to log out and in again, with all your windows correctly positioned on the right desktops. That kind of works on KDE/X11, but not yet on Wayland. See this ongoing BZ discussion:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436318
I read somewhere that session restore works on Gnome, but have never been able to verify this. It's astonishing to me that this basic usability feature seems to get so little attention.
Session restoration is also important for remote administration and patching. If a machine gets rebooted because it took security updates or the admin installed software and rebooted the machine, then it would be very useful for the user if the session was restored when the user logged back in.
Note that I'm not even asking for full session restore, which would mean each app restoring its own state (open files, contents of the clipboard, current directory etc.). That clearly would require cooperation from the app itself, which couldn't be guaranteed in every case. I'd be happy just to have the windows and desktops restored correctly, and the current directory if it's still accessible. If other systems can do this, Linux should also be able to.
poc