Re: [Usability] Modified Documents

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 09:09 -0400, Boris Goldowsky wrote:

> Why not adopt the NeXT & Mac OS X practice of putting a mark inside or
> over the 'close window' control?  It makes sense because if you are
> about to close a document window, that's the moment you need to be
> reminded that it has been modified.

Doesn't really cover all the bases, though... many people close windows
with Ctrl-Q/W, Alt-F4 or File->Close, too.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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