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Re: Saving widgets in plasma
by Aaron Seigo on Thursday 08/May/2008, @14:24

Plasma does save widgets in between; the problem is that on your system it's evidently crashing on log out. To find the problem, try running command from a console in a session: kquitapp plasma. You can start Plasma up again quite easily with `plasma` so don't freak out when your desktop goes all white (or whatever). You should then see the crash; and you should also get a crash dialog that will let you get to the backtrace.

Most likely scenarios: you are using composite with the taskbar tooltips which is crashing somewhere in the X11 code; you have stale plasmoids sitting around somewhere and bringing your system down.

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Re: Saving widgets in plasma
by Morty on Saturday 10/May/2008, @12:22

> Plasma does save widgets in between;

Then this is the actual problem, that Plasma only saves configuration changes between sessions. This sounds like the same flaw that Kicker had, any crashes could mess up your configuration. This is specially a problem on systems where the users stays logged in for long periodes of time, basicly a very common usage pattern on *nix systems.

And on modern computers with suspend to ram/disk logouts should not be necessary at all. And since the suspend features generally seem somewhat unrealible over the range of different hardware, this increases the problem by vanishing configurations, making it even worse.

Simply making Plasma/plasmoids save it's configuration when changed, rather than waiting for logout would remove the problems. By nature the configurations will be fairly static, and any changes will only happen at one item at the time making the resource usage small.

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Re: Saving widgets in plasma
by Ian Monroe on Saturday 10/May/2008, @15:01

The correct place to fix this would be the KConfig backend, not plasma. Like a sqlite kconfig backend wouldn't have this issue, it's good at crash-recovery.

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