Bug#284090: gnome-session: Splash stays

[Josselin Mouette]

Le dimanche 08 avril 2007 à 15:36 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar a écrit :
> On 4/8/07, Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
> > The session manager is not just starting applications. It is managing
> > them with the XSM protocol, which, as it was designed, doesn't allow for
> > handling applications that crash *before* registering to the session
> > manager.
> 
> My bad for not doing any research before commenting :)
> So continuing in ignorance (partial this time), isn't it possible at
> all to cater for application crashes even before they register
> themselves to the session? Or is that how th splashscreen is expected
> to behave anyways?

I'm no X specialist, but I'm afraid X11 isn't compatible with the more
process-centric design which would allow that. You'd need to rethink
session management as a whole and it would require changes in hundreds
of applications. This may happen in the future, but it seems currently
easier to just fix applications that crash; they need to be fixed,
anyway :)

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