There is a new merge on the Wayland GitLab repo. This new merge (of an old pull request) adds xdg-session-management protocol to Wayland. This is a big development and certainly a feature Linux users will enjoy.
As per the brief message in merge request:
For a variety of cases it’s desirable to have a method for negotiating the restoration of previously-used states for a client’s windows. This helps for e.g., a compositor/client crashing (definitely not due to bugs) or a backgrounded client deciding to temporarily destroy its surfaces in order to conserve resources.
This protocol adds a method for managing such negotiation and is loosely based on the Enlightenment “session recovery” protocol which has been implemented and functional for roughly two years.
In simpler words, session recovery is finally coming to Wayland.
Surely it’d be absurd for each individual app to need to implement this spec - that defeats the whole point. I can believe it’d be down to Qt or some other library, but as I said, I’m sure that’d apply to those two apps.
Yeah, I imagine there’s some QT bits for implementing a lot of it, if it detects them being available. Not being massively familiar with QT or how those two apps make use of it, I can’t assume they’d be making use of the components that’d implement KDEs custom extensions. So you know shrugs