[haiku-development] Re: The ways of Reboot. Acknowledge or not?

Johannes Wischert schrieb:

How about simply automaticaly saving the "state" of the application so
the text editor would open up again with all the text it had open
before shutdown etc... So everything would get saved in the state it
is in some temporary file and the original version would remain
unchanged. That would not work for every application but for most of
them...
Of course this would only work for native applicationst that have
support for that build in ...
Yes, that would then be the session management that we all want anyways. :-) Maybe it could be introduced gradually. The protocol could easily detect if any running application does not support it, and revert to asking the user to saving the document. This could be as easy as adding a flag to the B_QUIT_REQUESTED message. Applications supporting the flag would silently save all state and reply to the message in a way that indicates they are ready to be restarted in the next session, while "old" applications would ignore the flag and ask the user save their documents (and they would not be restarted on the next session). 

Best regards,
-Stephan

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