On Sunday 04 September 2005 13:16, Andras Mantia wrote:
> On Sunday 04 September 2005 14:09, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > The new QTemporaryFile in class seems a good replacement to
> > KTempFile, but with the problem that it uses QDir::tempPath() as path
> > to create the temp file so it can not be used to create files like
> > KTempFile does in $KDEHOME/tmp-$HOST/appname/
>
> Speaking of tempfiles, I have an idea for KDE4, which I'm actually use
> already in Quanta.Some applications create temporary files whose names
> are user visible. Even if they set some name for the files it's still
> ugly as it looks like:
> quantaSOMERANDOMSTRING.extension
>
> where SOMERANDOMSTRING is very ugly. So instead of that I create a
> temporary directory (with a random name) and a file inside which has
> the name and the extension exactly how I want.
>  What would you think about having this in the libraries? For example it
> could be used when opening a file from an external site from Konqueror
> when the opening app does not support KIO (so the file is first
> downloaded).

KBabel uses the autosave directory to do something like this (as far as I 
understand the code).

>
> Yes, this means to keep and extend KTempFile.
>
> Andras