Bug#428344: epiphany gets confused by a shared home directory

[Daniel Burrows]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 07:43:26AM +0200, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> was heard to say:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 07:15:26PM -0700, Daniel Burrows <dburrows at debian.org> wrote:
> > Package: epiphany-browser
> > Version: 2.14.3-6
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> >   If I have a home directory that's shared between two computers, and I
> > start epiphany on both of them, the second one that's started will offer
> > to "recover" the tabs from the first one.
> > 
> >   The solution to this could be as simple as replacing session_crashed.xml
> > with session_crashed-$HOSTNAME-$DISPLAY.xml.
> 
> But then, what to do when you have a session recovery file from a host
> and start ephy on another (while not running on the first) ? Since
> you're sharing the home directory, wouldn't you expect it to pick this
> sessions ? And then what happens when there are two session recovery
> files and start on a third computer ?

  I don't see a problem with that; it's much less annoying than the
current behavior, at any rate.  You could always provide the user with
the option of manually picking sessions from other machines to restore.  
I could also imagine doing clever things with fcntl locks, which would
rely on locks working but would degrade to the current behavior if they
don't.

  I don't care how you do it, really, I just want the annoying offer to
helpfully spawn useless tabs that appears whenever I start epiphany on
another machine to go away.

  Daniel