Saving temporary files elsewhere just relocates the problem - users still won't know where they've saved the file.
Preventing edited files in /tmp/being deleted is (afaik) impossible because you can't easily distinguish them from regular temporary files that should be deleted. Preventing users saving files in /tmp/ sounds like a world of pain. Making firefox/thunderbird save such files as read-only ensures correct and unsurprising behaviour - the files are temporary and will be cleaned up on reboot (or earlier) and the users can't edit them in-place. -- when opening an attachment, it should be written to tmp as a read-only file https://launchpad.net/bugs/87101 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
