Re: [Libreoffice] Assertions and Logging

On 11/21/2011 04:14 PM, Terrence Enger wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 14:30 +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> >                                                        (One thing we
> > could IMO improve though, is to not rely on trying to save open
> > documents from within a signal handler, but instead rely on frequent
> > auto-save and roll back to the last saved version after a crash.)
>
> Not disagreeing, but this would increase the fraction of the
> time during which Writer, at least, ignores keystrokes.  If
> you are looking at the screen when this happens, you just
> wait for the autosave to finish and then carry on; if you
> are looking at something else, you are faced later--for some
> walue of "later"--with the challenge of trying to
> reconstruct what you were thinking.

True.  So an improvement probably better left for the hypothetical 
future where we have really fast save and/or save in the background.

Stephan