I think this should be considered a system wide bug. Lots of people open a document from firefox, thunderbird or any other internet program that saves temporally files to /tmp when opening them with another application.
The typical case is opening an attached document from a webmail to openoffice. Inexperienced users might (and do actually often) edit it and save it without paying attention to where it is saved (typically, clicking the save button of the toolbar). Then the computer is shut down and the file is deleted on next boot (and even if it wasn't deleted, it would be hard to find in /tmp). So we need something to fix that: either save temporary files to another place, prevent edited files in /tmp to be deleted on boot, or prevent users to save files in /tmp. -- when opening an attachment, it should be written to tmp as a read-only file https://launchpad.net/bugs/87101 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
