Re: [Rosegarden-user] Autosave user interface
On 10/18/22 07:07, Will Godfrey wrote: On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 12:30:56 -0400 Ted Felix wrote: Off the top of my head, I thought we popped up a dialog on launch (or an attempt to open) that said, "hey, I found an autosave from the last crash. Should I open that?" The user should never dig through the autosave directory. Is this not what is happening? Did you try just loading the file that was open during a crash? Maybe something is broken? Ted. That's always happened for me. A question: What version of Rosegarden was the original poster referring to about this? -- David W. Jones gn...@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com "My password is the last 8 digits of π." ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
Re: [Rosegarden-user] Autosave user interface
On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 12:30:56 -0400
Ted Felix wrote:
> Off the top of my head, I thought we popped up a dialog on launch (or
>an attempt to open) that said, "hey, I found an autosave from the last
>crash. Should I open that?" The user should never dig through the
>autosave directory. Is this not what is happening? Did you try just
>loading the file that was open during a crash? Maybe something is broken?
>
>Ted.
That's always happened for me.
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Re: [Rosegarden-user] Autosave user interface
Off the top of my head, I thought we popped up a dialog on launch (or an attempt to open) that said, "hey, I found an autosave from the last crash. Should I open that?" The user should never dig through the autosave directory. Is this not what is happening? Did you try just loading the file that was open during a crash? Maybe something is broken? Ted. On 10/18/22 12:00 PM, Patrick May wrote: Rosegarden really needs improved user interface for managing autosaves. As it is right now when rosegarden crashes, to try to recover what's left of their work, it seems like the user has to manually navigate to $HOME/.local/share/rosegarden, sort through the files by date to find the file that's relevant in the long list of files which all have names like "oigjewgj3j65j3oi74j6j34t5juij4oi74", and then finally rename the files to have the .rg extension so that rosegarden will actually allow you to open them. This requires the user also to find the extremely obscure location of the autosave folder themself. Or at least, I had to. The information on https://www.rosegardenmusic.com/wiki/doc:companion-en is incorrect or outdated, it says the $HOME/autosave is used for autosaves, it isn't. Maybe you could add something like a "recent autosaves" sub menu in the File menu. ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
[Rosegarden-user] Autosave user interface
Rosegarden really needs improved user interface for managing autosaves. As it is right now when rosegarden crashes, to try to recover what's left of their work, it seems like the user has to manually navigate to $HOME/.local/share/rosegarden, sort through the files by date to find the file that's relevant in the long list of files which all have names like "oigjewgj3j65j3oi74j6j34t5juij4oi74", and then finally rename the files to have the .rg extension so that rosegarden will actually allow you to open them. This requires the user also to find the extremely obscure location of the autosave folder themself. Or at least, I had to. The information on https://www.rosegardenmusic.com/wiki/doc:companion-en is incorrect or outdated, it says the $HOME/autosave is used for autosaves, it isn't. Maybe you could add something like a "recent autosaves" sub menu in the File menu. ___ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
