[LAD] Session Handlers and 'level 1' support

[Nedko Arnaudov]

Chris Cannam <cannam at all-day-breakfast.com> writes:

> 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?

Mmmm, suggesting as proposing

> 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).

What better alternative you propose? ladish will implement levels 2 and
3 in future.

-- 
Nedko Arnaudov <GnuPG KeyID: DE1716B0>
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