Inkscape sometimes freeze-locks the system during opperations, so a restart is sometimes necessary. This destroys the temp caches on reboot, so it's not a very safe place to save imho.
I agree.
If Inkscape crashes, or is "killed" for any reason, Inkscape should indeed offer to restore the previous session when it's started up again.
I second this too. Would be a very nice thing to have.
When an svg file is saved, Inkscape should erase the corresponding temp files associated with that file, and thus do its own garbage-cleanup.
If Inkscape is closed regularly without saving, these files should also be erased, as nothing has gone wrong, and that's what auto-save is for.
Now, here are some things unclear to me. Inkscape doesn't have "temp" files, as far as I know. The only case I can characterize s file sd temp is when you make a bitmap copy of selected object(s). Inkscape then embeds them to the working document, but PNG is being held on hard disk for some reason. I think this copies are good candidates for /tmp directory (or some other dir, which cleaning is handled by system).
Auto-save as is right now is not such a bad implementation. The only thing I am missing is one GUI button to choose auto-save location graphically. Similarly to what we currently have in Export bitmap dialog for for choosing export location.
Did I misinterpret something CR?
RGDS,
Vlada