Bug#448490: kate: Kate has no crash recovery
Package: kate
Version: 4:3.5.7.dfsg.1-1
Severity: important
Kate does not store unsaved work, so if
the network connection (or kate) crashes you will lose all your
unsaved work. I encontered this problem when running kate
remotely, over X; the network went down briefly
and everything that I did evaporated.
Now, I'm sure someone will tell me "save your work",
but many modern text editors like vim and Word (and
a few others I might mention) save state to allow
recovery from a crash. I assumed that kate also
did so.
This is an important bug because an unbiassed observer
(i.e. someone who hadn't just lost two hours of work)
told me "Well, cross *that* editor off your list."
Thus, it is a severe enough problem to render kate
unusable -- at least in competition with other editors.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages kate depends on:
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.7.dfsg.1-7 core libraries and binaries for al
ii libacl1 2.2.45-1 Access control list shared library
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.19-3 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libattr1 1:2.4.39-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libaudio2 1.9-3 Network Audio System - shared libr
ii libc6 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgamin0 [libfam0] 0.1.9-2 Client library for the gamin file
ii libgcc1 1:4.2.2-3 GCC support library
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 1.1-1 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-3 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.7-9 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.2.2-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-6 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages kate recommends:
ii kregexpeditor 4:3.5.7-3 graphical regular expression edito
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