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



On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 18:37, Joshua Adam Ginsberg wrote:
> The suggested change of adding "(modified)" to the title bar doesn't
> address applications that have multiple documents open in a tabbed
> interface. This seems to be a property of many IDE's. For example,
> although not exactly a really integrated GNOME application, the Bluefish
> HTML editor (http://bluefish.openoffice.nl) has such an interface and it
> denotes changes in individual documents with an asterisk. The Eclipse
> IDE Havoc espoused recently also seems to have such an interface.
> Perhaps the HIG changes should take these types of apps into

The obvious solution is for the title bar to change according to the
currently selected tab. Possibly, the tab titles could be marked with an
asterisk and/or different color text to denote changed files as well.


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