Comment 2 for bug 333603

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:23:26AM -0000, Chris Coulson wrote:
> Thank you for your bug report, but why do you think that this is not a
> duplicate of bug 249373? This functionality has not been ported to the
> new gnome-session codebase yet, so bug 249373 still applies to Jaunty.
> To me, this problem looks like bug 249373, unless you can explain why
> you think it isn't

The underlying cause is that the two application still speak the
old session management protocol.
However, as they are two prominent gnome applications and at the same
version as gnome-session, they should be speaking the same session
management protocol.
Until they do, it should be documented as a known issue for any
distribution that ships gnome 2.24 or later.
By documenting it as a known issue I and other users can
evaluate whether to stay with ubuntu 8.04, migrate to KDE, or
migrate back to 1990 vintange .xinitrc and .xsession files.

With non-gnome applications that use the old session management protocol (IE
KDE apps, firefox), I would fully expect for a bug report to be flagged
as a defect.

Until the developers of gnome-terminal and nautilus either eat the
gnome 2.24 session management dogfood, or publicly declare that
they won't eat the current session management dogfood, it is a
technical defect in those applications.
In the meantime, it would help that the separate issues

1) Current gnome-session does not support the legacy protocol.
2) Current gnome applications do not support the current session-protocol.

If #2 is successfully addressed, there is the opportunity for the
new session protocol to become the standard making #1 a non-issue.
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Chris Dukes
"In cynicism she's about 35" -- Terry Pratchett's "Hog Father"