Public bug reported:
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open a tarball with file-roller
2. Open a file within the archive without explicitly extracting it. (Such as by
double clicking the file)
3. Notice that the file is extracted to a directory ~/.fr-*
4. Close file-roller. If you used file-roller's GUI to exit, the temporary
file(s) and directory are deleted. However, if you kill it via SIGTERM or
logout without exiting file-roller (I presume that sends either SIGTERM or
SIGHUP), the temp files are left behind.
There are two problems with this:
1. file-roller should clean up its temp files on exit, regardless of the exit
method (with the obvious exception of SIGKILL, which can't be trapped).
2. The proper place for temporary files is /tmp. Dotfiles in $HOME are for
program settings and the like. In the event that file-roller doesn't clean up
its temp files, they just pollute $HOME and waste disk space. However, /tmp is
cleaned on boot (or is it in shutdown?), so pollution and wasted disk space is
minimized.
** Affects: file-roller (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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file-roller puts temporary files in the home dir instead of /tmp
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/245716
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