saving the desktop?

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Wed Nov 19 13:30:42 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 19 November 2008 12:56:12 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 00:59 -0500, Jason Farrell wrote:
> > Great session saving/restoration -- for the desktop, konsole, and
> > konqueror
> > -- is the *primary* feature that has always kept me coming back to
> > KDE.
> > KDE's got a ton of drawbacks when compared to Gnome's tight
> > integration with
> > Fedora, but booting back up and having *all*[1] two dozen of your apps
> > restored to their respective workspaces is a killer feature. Sorry to
> > hear
> > Gnome's gone backwards from what little session it used to save.
> >
> > [1] except for a brief period in KDE 4.1.0 when session saving was
> > broken.
>
> You mean it's been fixed? I assume you're referring to the missing
> "explicit session save" functionality that KDE 3.5 had. I still don't
> see it in 4.1.2.
>
The theory is that you don't need an explicit 'save session' any more - it's 
the default.  And yes, it works both on this Mandriva laptop and on my F10 
netbook.  

Anne
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