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



У Пнд, 2005-01-31 у 12:04 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero пише:
> On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 14:17 +0100, Markus Bertheau ☭ wrote:
> 
> > I understand that it would be better if all apps did not expose the
> > implementation model of hard disk vs. RAM, but I don't understand why
> > the behaviour described above should not be appropriate for the
> > currently used model. Can you detail on this?
> 
> You have two cases:
> 
> 1. Already-saved documents with modifications
> 2. Unsaved documents
> 
> When you exit the program, you don't want it to automatically save (1)
> to the existing filename since you may not want the document's changes
> to be on your "final" on-disk version.

Use the "Abandon changes" menu item mentioned in my other mail. Besides,
non-techie computer users don't see the difference between the "on-disk"
version and the "in-ram" version - the just took the document and edited
it, now they're done and want to put it away.

> For both cases, though, you may want to save to ~/.gnome2/tmp/myapp or
> something, so that you can re-open those files when you restart the
> program.  The files would be deleted when you actually save the
> documents to a "real" filename, or close them without saving.

I imagine my mom, working in an office. She got sent a document by her
boss. She opens it, changes it, closes the app.
Next day she sends the document back to her boss. The boss gets an
unchanged version back. I think that's confusing. The app should just
save the document. I don't see what's bad with this.

-- 
Markus Bertheau <twanger bluetwanger de>

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