Review Request: Fix the autosave recovery system

Franz Fellner alpine.art.de at googlemail.com
Thu May 10 07:17:18 BST 2012



> On May 9, 2012, 9 p.m., Franz Fellner wrote:
> > Select a file to recover and close it -> no warning about unsaved changes - and the Recovery-Dialog will pop up with the next start.
> > Also saving is broken: Pressing save on a recovery from an unsaved file will save it to the autosave file (e.g. ~/.words-13010-document_0-autosave.odt), and not presenting a "save to" file-dialog. Especially with the next start, words will try to recover the same file, again.
> > 
> > Nevertheless thx for this great step forward and the nice dialog :)

Already saved and restored files will load as e.g. ~/.words-13010-document_0-autosave.odt, too. So somewhere, the connection between the autosave file and saved file are lost.


- Franz


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On May 9, 2012, 2:55 p.m., Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
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> (Updated May 9, 2012, 2:55 p.m.)
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> Review request for Calligra.
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> Description
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> 
> 1) X-KDE-NativeExtension can be empy, in that case take mime->mainExtension.
>     
>     Otherwise our autosave files are called .autosave, and that's not something
>     the filter's mime detection can handle
>     
> 2) don't overwrite autosave files when running multiple unnamed modified
>     documents
>     
> 3) tag the autosave files with the pid and use dbus to check which processes
>     that have autosave files are still active; don't offer to recover those.
>     
> 4) show the autosave files in a nice dialog with the ora/odf thumbnail
>     as a preview, and offer to recover them all.
> 
> 
> This addresses bug 299611.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299611
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> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   libs/main/KoMainWindow.cpp c01f44d 
>   libs/main/KoAutoSaveRecoveryDialog.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   libs/main/KoDocument.h 0a28c7c 
>   libs/main/KoDocument.cpp d2d3938 
>   libs/main/KoAutoSaveRecoveryDialog.h PRE-CREATION 
>   libs/main/CMakeLists.txt ea408b7 
>   libs/main/KoApplication.cpp 12ddec3 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104892/diff/
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> Testing
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> went manually through all possible scenarios
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> Screenshots
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> autosavefile recovery dialog
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104892/s/561/
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> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Boudewijn Rempt
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