KAutoSaveFile

Thiago Macieira made a post last month, detailing the opportunity for a new KDE developer to hack on kdelibs. At that time I wanted to jump on it, but was bogged down with schoolwork. Then, this past week, after I received my subversion access to KDE, I looked to see if anyone had taken Thiago up on the offer. No one had, so spent a few hours and wrote the implementation to KAutoSaveFile.

With KAutoSaveFile you can easily create a temporary file to write unsaved data in. If the application fails, you can recover any lost documents. KOffice will be changing its own implementation of this feature to KAutoSaveFile shortly.

On a more general note. Aaron Seigo and I have been conversing on the overlapping file classes and methods in KDE. He has just outlined what should now be used in his blog. All this simplifying is great.