Re: [Usability] Modified Documents

[Dave Ahlswede <mightyquinn charter net>]

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 12:51 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 00:30, Curtis Hovey wrote:
> 
> > 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.  
> 
> FWIW I think such a thing would better belong in the menu bar than on
> the title bar, which already has its own drag-and-drop semantics.  (But
> then you potentially lose consistency between the title bar and the
> window list, were the document status to be shown iconically in one but
> not the other.)
> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
> 

I would suggest instead, if possible, to have an XDS draggable icon in
the GTK save dialog-- you'd still have to invoke the save dialog
manually, but it would save having to create an alternate and
potentially inconsistent dialog for save options (File name,
"Frobnication" options and the like).

For discoverability purposes, I'd also suggest that the icon also light
up on mouseover, like nautilus icons.

(I've got a quick mockup to illustrate at
http://mayaka.sayuri.ca:8000/~quinn/kernel/filesave.png )