# Migrating from EggSMClient to GtkApplication

EggSMClient provides 'session management' support for applications. This means a number of things:

- logout notification and negotiation
- application state saving
- restarting of applications with saved state

EggSMClient supports this functionality to varying degrees on Windows and OS X, as well as with XSMP and D-Bus based session managers in X11.

Starting with GTK+ 3.4, #GtkApplication supports logout notification and negotiation similar to EggSMClient.

EggSMClient to GtkApplication

EggSMClient | GtkApplication
--- | ---
EggSMClient::quit-requested | instead of calling will_quit (FALSE,...) in response to this signal, install an inhibitor
EggSMClient::quit | the #GApplication::shutdown signal
EggSMClient::quit-cancelled | -
egg_sm_client_will_quit | instead of calling will_quit (FALSE,...), install an inhibitor
egg_sm_client_end_session | -

At this point, GtkApplication has no special support for state saving and restarting. Applications can use GSettings or GKeyFile and save as much state as they see fit in response to #GApplication::shutdown or whenever they consider appropriate.