According to Git / SVN history research, it was last used by KDE in
KDE 1. It seems like other toolkits also stopped using it 10-20 years
ago. It should have little to no practical relevance anymore.
I've found some documentation of legacy XSM session management from
1992, and the first copyright year of the XSMP spec (what we're
currently using) is 1993.
Also, XSM was removed from GNOME's gnome-session in 2005, rationale
and short discussion here:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/
2005-July/msg00527.html
with the following objections:
- Firefox doesn't support XSMP (long fixed)
- CDE on Solaris doesn't support XSMP (oh well...)
- Motif applications don't support XSMP
On kde-core-devel and kwin, nobody cared too much.
Consider XSM "accidentally" broken now ;)
https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=144857647812257https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=144976915400658
There is a utility called xsmproxy which comes from X.org.
It talks legacy XSM to clients and XSMP to an XSMP compliant
session manager and can therefore maybe hopefully make session
management of dinosaur applicatons sort of work.
It seems like that one received its last major modification
in 2003.
There is also some XSM related code in KWin that I will remove next.
This is the beginning of revision history for this module. If you
want to look at revision history older than this, please refer to the
techbase wiki for how to use Git history grafting. At the time of
writing, this wiki is located here:
http://community.kde.org/Frameworks/GitOldHistory
If you have already performed the grafting and you don't see any
history beyond this commit, try running "git log" with the "--follow"
argument.
Branched from the monolithic repo kde-workspace, frameworks branch, at commit
049113e719dd2fc4446d054fa1a3aada330094f0
Andreas Hartmetz
Hrvoje Senjan
Lukáš Tinkl
Aleix Pol