I don't know when it happens (I suppose on panel restarts), but xfce4-notes-plugin-1.7.7 creates notes from temporary files. These are named like notes I've created before, with a dot and random characters at the end, e.g.: Todo.L44QNW. The contents are the same too. After a while, a lot of these files exist and need to be deleted, which is pretty awful.
such files are created while saving the note/notes with the g_file_set_contents function. "This write is atomic in the sense that it is first written to a temporary file which is then renamed to the final name.", read more here: https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-File-Utilities.html#g-file-set-contents such files can be kept on the system while closing the X session (when xfce4-panel gets terminated), in which case the notes application is terminated as well and triggers a save operation, but didn't get time to run all operations. a save action is always run when exiting the application, even when such an action is not necessary. this part can be improved.
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