30 Oct
2007
30 Oct
'07
12:50 p.m.
allbery:
On Oct 30, 2007, at 11:25 , Don Stewart wrote:
Oh, that's an issue -- now you've hidden state away in a module, how are we going to get at it to serialise? This is why global state is bad.
Urgency hints are ephemeral state, for which the window manager is *not* authoritative; you do not want to save it, you want to reconstruct it on restart by checking extant windows' urgency hints.
Yes, which opens up the issue of how you initialise state on restart with extensions, as they don't provide setup or teardown methods. So while for this particular case, local iorefs will work, its not a scalable solution to extensions needing state. -- Don