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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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Re: Saving widgets in plasma
by Morty on Monday 12/May/2008, @13:03

No, it does not seem like the problem is about crash-recovery. A crash on logout should never make configuration changes dissappear, since any changes should have been saved long before you log out. Plasma and plasmoids should behave like regular applications. Take Konqueror, it does not lose changes made to it's settings if it crashes before you exit.

If you save when configurations are changed instead of waiting for exit, any crashes on exit or before will not loose settings.

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