The State of (in)Consistency of Save Confirmation Dialogs

[Steven Garrity <stevelist silverorange com>]

While the file chooser has gotten lots of attention and improved 
dramatically in the last year, it's little cousin the save confirmation 
alert dialog has been sadly neglected.

I've compiled a bit of an inventory what is consistent and what is 
inconsistent about the save confirmation dialogs in a sampling of 
applications Gnome and Gtk applications.

This is *not* a complete review. Rather, I grab a sampling of apps that 
I use regularly and that I think would be commonly used among others.

The results of what I found are here:
http://actsofvolition.com/include/savealerts/

I've also put up a page with screenshots of the save dialogs from the 
apps I looked at: 
http://actsofvolition.com/include/savealerts/screenshots.html

I'm hoping this overview can help co-ordinate (or inspire) fixes for the 
 offending apps/dialogs. I may try to assemble a bug list for the 
issues discussed in the article so progress can be tracked as well.

Feedback and corrections are encouraged - thanks,
Steven Garrity