Re: Menu guidelines updated



On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 05:36:09PM -0400, Michael T. Babcock wrote:
> "Re_vert to Saved" is more appropriately grouped with the "Open" functions
> as it opens (re-opens) a document, and does not save anything.  It is, in
> fact
> the opposite of saving the current document so it should be moved away from
> those functions.

This may well be correct. However, the Open and New commands create
new windows, while Revert doesn't, so there are differences. In
general I'm not very happy with the way I've got the File menu
organised, and I'd appreciate any suggestions.


> On that note, "Undo all changes" might be a better name, or "Reload from
> disk",
> either of which would be best include a warning message similar to that used
> when closing a document with unsaved changes.

"Undo all changes" isn't right. If the user were to open a file, edit
it, save it, and edit again, they could then use the Undo command on
the Edit menu to get to a state prior to the save, which they wouldn't
be able to do with Revert.

"Reload from disk" isn't right either. If the user didn't know that
the file system was on disk and that the running program was in main
memory (ignoring for a moment the fact that some of it will be swapped
out to disk anyway) then they wouldn't understand the significance of
"Reload from disk".

At this stage I think I'm happiest with "Revert to Saved", though it
also occured to me that "Reopen" was an option.

colin

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