https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496891
--- Comment #2 from Takiro Ryo <takiro-...@gelbfuchs.de> --- While I do agree that this is how it was called since like as long I'm using computers there is a shift in usage and terminology lately, and that's why some Krita users (the typical "not computer people", who can barely tell a website from an app) have trouble understanding this. Even big software corporations seem to do the shift. Microsoft office also now calls the *former* auto save a recovery save and what is now the new auto save is an actual persistent file. > AutoSave is a new feature available in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint for > Microsoft 365 subscribers that saves your file automatically, every few > seconds, as you work. Source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-is-autosave-6d6bd723-ebfd-4e40-b5f6-ae6e8088f7a5 The article does not mention that you can even go to previous versions of the auto save, it basically acts like Krita's incremental save option but automatically on a timer. > For example, in Microsoft Office, this option is called AutoRecover and, by > default, saves the document every ten minutes in the temporary file > directory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autosave I guess that's why some Krita users make this mistake, because the come from the big corpo software's who call it different already and it becomes more common for auto saves to be the "I hit the save button for you" function instead of "I keep a backup in case something goes wrong". If we don't change it, how can we make it more clear to the inexperienced user that this does not substitute a manual save? We want Krita to be accessible for professionals and beginners alike and I believe we are leaving the beginners behind, here. And the experienced users, while they might rise an eyebrow first, will probably understand what is meant with (crash) recovery file. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
