Re: [gedit-list] Save button sensitivity

["Pedro Castro" <noup net gmail com>]

Thanks, that's all i needed.

I share your opinion that it's preferable for it to always stay
sensitive. Just decided to ask because i was getting this question
from users of a project of mine - Gnome Subtitles - and thought that
gEdit, a reference for me for its GUI, should have discussed it
previously.

On 10/14/06, Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com> wrote:
> Il giorno sab, 14/10/2006 alle 14.25 +0100, Pedro Castro ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm wondering if you guys have discussed it previously whether the
> > Save button on the toolbar (and the menuitem) should be set
> > insensitive after saving. Like is done in many programs, when there
> > aren't more changes to save, the button is set insensitive. What do
> > you think about it?
> >
>
> Yes, it's been discussed before. You may find the whole discussion
> somewhere in bugzilla.
>
> The short answer, is that saving is always a lecit operation even if
> there are no pending changes, so it should always be available. Suppose
> for instance that the file has been deleted or changed outside of gedit
> [1]...
>
>
> paolo
>
>
> [1] and no, monitoring the file is not a viable solution: all the file
> monitoring technologies have a lot of bugs and limitations.


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Pedro Castro
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