Change Close Icon for Unsaved Work

[Leon Stringer <leonstr yahoo co uk>]

Hi,


This isn't exactly a theme issue, but I'm not sure
where to post this.


I wondered if anyone had ever proposed changing the
close icon ('X') 

when a document is modified and unsaved.



Applications on the Mac do this, the X becomes a
circle indicating that 

when you click it you will be prompted to confirm the
close or save your
work.


Has this been proposed in GNOME before?



A number of applications use an asterisk to indicate
unsaved work (OOo 

on the status bar, gEdit on the caption bar) so I
thought changing the X 

to a simple 5-point asterisk might work?



Obviously this would require changes to themes and
some API 

functionality behind the scenes.



Is there a better place to suggest this?



If anyone is interested, I've done a simple mockup in
Java. 

As I had to do the widgets myself they're crude (the
asterisk looks more 

like a stick man). Type some text, the close gadget
changes. Press 

Ctrl+S to "save" it, it changes back. Click "Close"
when it's an 'X' and

the window closes. Click "Close" when it's an '*' and
you get a prompt.



http://homepage.ntlworld.com/leon.stringer/CloseTest.jar,
run it with 

"java -cp CloseTest.jar CloseTest" (Sun VM's 1.5 or
later).
(Screenshot:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/leon.stringer/close-test.png)


I think this would give a clear, consistent indication
of a document's
modified state at a glance, e.g. so a user could
quickly see they 
should save their document when leaving their desk.


Good idea or bad idea?



Leon...


		
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