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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 161570] please redesign autosave feature
From:       Heikki Naski <heikki.naski () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-02-19 17:57:47
Message-ID: E1RzB19-0000sN-Dh () bugs ! kde ! org
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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161570


Heikki Naski <heikki.naski@gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
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--- Comment #13 from Heikki Naski <heikki naski gmail com>  2012-02-19 17:57:46 ---
Ok. I confirm that this issue exists and therefore I'm changing its status to
new.

It might help if the summary of this issue would be changed to "Disable
autosave by default" or "Remove the autosave feature completely", depending on
what you want.

To ease the maintainers' decision making process I tried to do a bit of
research to find out if people like the autosave feature.

Here are messages on the mailing list about the feature:
http://osdir.com/ml/kde.devel.kile/2007-04/msg00052.html

Here's a list of bugzilla issues regarding autosave. People seem to be using
it, or at least they think that it should work.
https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr& \
short_desc=autosav&product=kile&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type= \
allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&emailassigned_to1=1&emai \
ltype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=su \
bstring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldval \
ue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=


There's a positive comment on the forums about the feature, but this doesn't
necessarily mean that this user likes the autosave. It could be that he is
merely happy to know that his work will not be lost if there's crash, and the
crash recovery feature handles that:
"When I'm typing a document, Kile will autosave it for me. Great!"
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kile/forums/forum/292014/topic/1928411

A negative comment:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.kile/1411

I'm attached a patch that turns autosave off by default. I tested the patch by
compiling the 2.1.1-version.

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