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... And can provide a way to save *the state* of an application to disk, stopping the app in its tracks and removing it from memory, so that later you can restore it just where you left off.

tube.kockatoo.org/w/3Sb8KKCmdQ

12 Sep 2023 at 8:57 | Open on floss.social
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Sparky 💡

@kde Yo, application snapshots? Switching DEs within seconds? What is this sorcery?

Really though, I can already think of a certain handheld gaming PC that would really benefit from saving and restoring the state of applications to and from disk, both in a gaming context and for more seamless switching between gaming and desktop modes.

12 Sep 2023 at 9:09 | Open on kind.social
*The* Paul Brown

@Bright5park @kde

Not only switching desktops in seconds, but you take all your open windows with you, all the graphical applications in the exact same state they were on the other desktop!

12 Sep 2023 at 9:16 | Open on social.tchncs.de
Sparky 💡

@Bro666 @kde That will be a really great power-saving measure for Linux phones in particular.
Application has been sitting there, doing nothing for a while? Instead of just closing it, just commit the state to disk, and put a marker somewhere to signify that the app should be restored on next launch.

...actually... if two systems are close enough in terms of installed packages, kernel and package versions and hardware, I wonder if you could transfer the state of an application between them.

@Bro666 @kde That will be a really great power-saving measure for Linux phones in particular.
Application has been sitting there, doing nothing for a while? Instead of just closing it, just commit the state to disk, and put a marker somewhere to signify that the app should be restored on next launch.

12 Sep 2023 at 9:32 | Open on kind.social
DELETED

@kde Amazing.

Is wayland reconnection implemented in GTK4?

12 Sep 2023 at 9:14 | Open on mstdn.vector1.dev
KDE

@vector1dev

The blog post covers this topic.

12 Sep 2023 at 9:17 | Open on floss.social
DELETED

@kde I see

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Not only does this technique work here, but we have pending patches for GTK, SDL and even XWayland, with key parts of SDL merged but disabled already.

But I can't search it in GTK issue tracker.

12 Sep 2023 at 9:49 | Open on mstdn.vector1.dev
Quik

@kde this opens up great possibilities, thrilled for the future (power saving possibilities, seamless movement between devices, switching DEs/WMs…)

12 Sep 2023 at 10:23 | Open on mastodon.social
user8e8f87e

@kde I’m 100 per cent sold on #Gnome but I really love to see this! And I hope KDE and Gnome will work even closer together in the future.

12 Sep 2023 at 11:50 | Open on berlin.social
John Christensen

@kde checkpoint restore would be a godsend for debugging issues that are hard to reproduce!

Much more useful than "send me the logs" and praying that logging has sufficient details.

12 Sep 2023 at 12:15 | Open on hachyderm.io
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