Re: [Usability]HIG proposal - "(Modified)"

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 14:52, bordoley msu edu wrote:

> 1. Sort of related can we explicitly state that applications that view 
> documents should only place the documents name in the window border and not 
> the whole path. Gedit includes the whole path and it makes the window list 
> useless (i have other reasons I want this change also, based ui methodology, 
> but i think this is actually the strongest reason).

I'll stick in on my list...

> 2. Save icon in the window border might be a really cool idea, especially is 
> you could drag the save icon to a nautilus window to save or save as a 
> document in a different folder. (probably needs some more in depth thought 
> though.)

Yeah, it wasn't an entirely serious proposal, but certainly the idea of
having a draggable icon somewhere in the window frame that represents
the current document is something that comes up from time to time. 
OpenWindows did this years ago and it was a popular feature of those
apps that supported it.

Cheeri,
Calum.
 
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