Carbonite

Last updated on 2 Aug 2021

State Management for the Pantheon Desktop Environment

Motivations

• Make State Mobile (Again)

Related Works

• i3-resurrect

• linux-window-session-manager

Tasks

gala-carbonite

• Provide DBus Service exposing the following methods
  • save
    • TODO Allow user to specify granularity of state capture
      • TODO a single window
      • DONE the current workspace
      • TODO all workspaces
    • TODO For each window to be captured, collect state information
      • DONE current working directory
      • TODO application
      • TODO window box (size and position)
      • window name?
    • TODO write state to file optionally provided, else the default location
      • TODO create setting for default save location
  • TODO restore

carbonite

• TODO allow user to specify granularity of state capture in UI
• TODO allow user to optionally specify filename to save to

carbonite-helper

• TODO allow user to restore state from saved file
  • should this be destructive, or additive only?