Re: [Usability] Modified Documents

[Curtis Hovey <sinzui cox net>]

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 13:52 +0000, Frans Englich wrote:
> On Friday 17 September 2004 13:37, Calum Benson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 00:39 +0100, Iain * wrote:
> > > Marlin puts "(modified)"after the file name because really what does *
> > > mean?
> >
> > I'd be happy to consider recommending putting (say) a mini Save icon
> > before the filename instead, but that would obviously need support in
> > metacity and the window list applet, etc.
> 
> Such a solution is very interesting. I think Mac OSX does it, and allows nifty 
> Drag&Dropping from that icon, which represents the document, to for example a 
> mail user agent for attachment. It follows up the multi window desktop/SDI 
> paradigm nicely.

I rarely use the file open/save dialogs.  Having a document icon in the
window would be a real boon for saving files to the folder I already
have open in Nautilus.  After creating an additional file in an editor,
I frequently save the file to the desktop, then drag it to the open
folder on my desktop.  (I use Templates or copy & paste to make new file
where I want them to be normally.)

Adding a real Nautilus context menu might be awkward, but it certainly
would be nice to get the file properties from it so that I can fix the
file permissions without needing to switch windows.  Though just adding
the file properties item to the File menu might suffice just as well.

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