Hello, Here's a scenario that just happened to my wife that should not. This is on Fedora 8. 1. Open a document from email attachment (with Kmail), that opens in OpenOffice 2. "Save As" the document so that it can be edited. 3. Openoffice "Save As" dialog open with the default directory "/tmp/kde-username" because that's where Kmail put its attachment 4. In a hurry, just name the file something else 5. Edit the file, Save, shutdown the computer 6. Next time computer boot up, document gone I know all the arguments blaming the user. As a technical person, regretably that was my first reaction also. On second thought, for regular user, who can tell what /tmp is ? Regular user does not know that /tmp are cleaned every reboot. Furthermore, in a hurry, if one just want to save quickly so that it can be used the next time computer boots up, it's understandable that user makes the mistake to save the document to whatever default directory is presented by the dialog box (thinking one can always re-open it from "Recent Document" menu). This is not limited to Kmail or Openoffice, I just tried and it's the same with KPDF, Kghostview, etc. Firefox opening files in application also has similar problem. What should be the general solutions for this ? Should this be the responsibility of the desktop environment project (ie. KDE, GNOME) from their "Save As" dialog rather than each individual apps ? I'm thinking of filling a bug report but then I'm not sure whom I should file this with. I can think of some hacky band-aid solution to prevent document loss next time like a rotating backup of /tmp for the next two reboot or edit the boot up script to not delete /tmp, etc, but none of those is a good enough general solution. Maybe it should be sometime like: 1. Default to $HOME directory for saving if file is opened from /tmp 2. Have a shortcut in the dialog to go to the directory where the document is opened from (ie. "/tmp/kde-username") for the case where one would actually just want to save a temporary file there. Probably have a "warning" and a "don't warn me again" or "do this automatically next time" preference. Thoughts ? Thanks for any discussion. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Dept. Physics and Astronomy University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
