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wip: Add state saving plumbing

Matthias Clasen requested to merge state-saving into master

This branch is an exploration of apis to do save and restore application state.

Some inspiration from: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/view_controllers/preserving_your_app_s_ui_across_launches

Problems with the prototype:

  • We need save-id's on all parents of a widget, since we're recursing the tree. Some of those parents may be entirely internal and hidden from app developers, so it is impractical to expect them to set those ids.

  • A bit awkward to replace ::activate with ::create-window like this

  • In the exampleapp testcase, using the x to close the window doesn't save state, since we don't call g_application_quit() in that case

  • We need compositor support to save window positions on Wayland

Edited by Emmanuele Bassi

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