Bug 122375

Summary:	Save session when locking the screen, to work around lost state when the system crashes
Product:	[Unmaintained] ksmserver	Reporter:	Stefan Monov <logixoul>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	anarky, kopete-bugs-null, nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Stefan Monov 2006-02-20 22:14:55 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

The way things are now, if the user goes away from the computer, it either wouldn't start doing anything or would start a screensaver.
The "Screensaver" should be replaced with a metaphor I'd call "Idle". What's done while "Idle" is on would be the following (all of it optional):

-Kat would update its index
-Distributed computing applications would start working at full power
-The KDE session would be saved (ever got a powercut after opening 100 important windows?)
-Kopete/Konversation would set the status to "Away"
-Software would be updated (which shouldn't happen most of the time because it hogs down the connection and things like web browsing become very slow)
-A screensaver would be activated
-...perhaps other things

This should be activated either manually or after a specified amount of time idle. The manual activation should be done in a very easy way, so it'd feel natural for the user and would be easy to get used to. For example there could be a button immediately on the left of the "Toggle showing" button at the right (by default), saying "Leave". Reentering "busy" mode would probably be done by pressing any key.

Comment 1 Stefan Monov 2006-12-23 13:46:29 UTC

*** Bug 129020 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Oswald Buddenhagen 2007-05-18 20:59:52 UTC

i think the kopete guys might have something to say about this ...

Comment 3 Stefan Monov 2007-09-12 10:27:32 UTC

see also:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=116664303926775&w=2

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2020-09-29 22:53:31 UTC

It's a cool idea, but any bug report that proposed things that all or many apps would implement are generally un-actionable. What's described here is the kind of major feature that the bug tracker is not a great fit for.

A specific actionable part of it would be to save the session when locking the screen. This could be a partial workaround for Bug 60894. Let's track that here.

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2023-05-17 17:09:40 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 60894 ***