[LAD] Session Handlers and 'level 1' support

[Chris Cannam]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Nedko Arnaudov <nedko at arnaudov.name> wrote:
> Chris Cannam <cannam at all-day-breakfast.com> writes:
>> OK... That sounds rather hazardous to me.  To lose all of one's data
>> instead of saving it, after a potentially long session's work, because
>> of a check box incorrectly checked when starting the application,
>> surely wouldn't please many users?
>
> And you are suggesting what?

Uh, I think you've lost me a bit, Nedko.  What do I appear to be suggesting?

I'm just saying that it might not be such a good idea for a session
manager to kill applications instead of saving them, when asked to
save.  Especially if that decision is based on user input that
happened a long time ago (so that the user may have done a lot of work
since making their mistake, but before discovering it was a mistake).

Since none of my applications have any support for any sort of session
manager yet, it's hardly surprising that I might be interested in
thinking about how they might behave if someone tried to use them with
one.


Chris