Auto save [Re: [Usability] [RFC] Proposed AbiWord preferences dialog mockup]

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:

> Hello Dom,
>
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>
> [Alan Horkan]
> > > It impacts on performance and is not really necessary.
>
> Impacts performance? What, are we still using 360K floppies for saving our
> documents?

There is no need to be rude.

I wont bore you with the details of the crap hardware I and many others
use unless you really want me to.  Developers and designers invariably
have better hardware.

> > I'm going to have to agree with Alan. Auto-save is not an obvious thing
> > to have enabled and can have undesirable side-effects.

It is currently an inappropriate default for Abiword.
I can go into more detail why if necessary (offlist).

At some stage in the future it might be a good idea, but I already said
that I am not the one you need to convince and I dont think abiword is the
program that should be leading the charge on this innovation.

> I'd go as far as to say that anything BUT auto-save is non-obvious. I'll
> leave it to mpt to explain this:
>
> http://mpt.phrasewise.com/2002/03/11#a146

There is no need to patronise me either.  I have read about auto-save, I
understand it is a nice idea and it's time will come.  Probably.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

PS Crossposting removed deliberately, please dont crosspost.