Keep windows and tabs across relaunch

[andrei.railean+adium@gmail.com]

It would be nice if any open windows and tabs in them were remembered when program is closed. This behaviour exists in Opera and Firefox (with session extension). So if I have a window with 3 tabs in it and press Apple+Q (by accident), when I bring Adium back up, the window and all the tabs are still there.

[lazydesert]

How about an option in prefs to confirm quit? Is that the only situation you're trying to cover?

[evands]

Unread messages -> confirm quit in 1.0.

message history and logs cover you not losing any actual data (even with unread messages, but that's a situation where you almost certainly want to read them before quitting).

[dmz@…]

I can definitely see worthwhile uses for this feature in addition to not losing any actual data; compare to an application like OmniWeb, which remembers browsing sessions across launches (and after crashes). When you launch OmniWeb, assuming you have told it to remember your workspace automatically, it comes up with exactly the same set of tabs as when you quit it (or it crashed). I tend to have pretty much the same set of tabs open all the time in Adium; it'd be nice if, after those occasions where I have to quit and restart it (software updates that require reboots, Adium crashes, Adium updates, etc.), my window state was exactly as I left it.

So if I understand the original reporter's intent (which is the same as mine), it's not a matter of wanting to avoid losing data, it's a matter of wanting to keep the same window state across launches without having to explicitly open a bunch of tabs.

[tick]

That's not something we're really interested in currently. The data loss issue is addressed in 1.0. The state of your accounts status (online/offline/away) is automatically set between sessions as well. This seems to be a good compromise between full session state, and none at all.