Re: The State of (in)Consistency of Save Confirmation Dialogs

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 21:44 -0400, Steven Garrity wrote:

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

This is great work!  The HIG should definitely standardize this for
single-document apps and for multi-document ones, and we should have an
API for it.

[And shouldn't "Cancel" be "Do not quit" or something explicit like
that?]

Apple says this:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGDialogs/chapter_9_section_5.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000962/CHDFAJBG

Related to that is this bug:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152850

It's about having the file chooser present an automatic confirmation for
when you want to overwrite a file in Save mode.  There's no such
functionality right now, and so apps implement it in different ways.

  Federico