Re: [Usability] The basic problem of creating new documents

[Daniel Borgmann <spark-mailinglists web de>]

Hello,

> But "Save As" is needed for when you modify an
> existing document and then you decide that you want to keep the
> original and save the changes under another name.  I cannot see
> how you can do this by avoiding "Save As".

You can't do this with my application because the data is directly
written to the file[1]. It's the same idea as outlined in Seth's Storage
concept[2]: "Data is constantly written to the objects by applications,
and saving is replaced by the ability to mark points in the document
history of particular interest."
So if you'd like to keep the original document, you should copy it (with
your file manager) or mark the current state as a revision before you
make the changes in the first place.

Daniel


[1] This is obviously not always the case because of technical reasons,
but the user shouldn't have to think about that.

[2] http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage/features.html