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

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 17:37, 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
> consideration?

I suspect that all we need to say is that the name of the document in
the frontmost tab should also appear in the titlebar, along with its
saved/unsaved status.  (Just like gedit does).

Note how I managed to avoid saying anything about the HIG's view of
tabbed MDIs altogether ;)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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