Re: [Usability] gedit's Save A Copy

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Luis Villa wrote:

> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:30:36 -0500
> From: Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>
> To: usability gnome org
> Cc: spark mayl de
> Subject: Re: [Usability] gedit's Save A Copy
>
> Slightly off-topic, but everyone discussing this (IMHO) should take a
> look at what scratchpad[1] does. It is a very basic text editor right
> now, but in particular, it implements instant-apply saving and marking
> of revisions. IMHO, that's the route gedit should think about going
> instead of doing lots of complicated stuff to unbreak broken concepts
> like 'save'.

Even if Gedit were to switch to an automated Versioning system like
Scratchpad I'm pretty sure it would still need to provide something like
Export/Save a Copy which is where the discussion started.  I'd still like
to see someone prototype the idea for Gedit rather than creating new
applications like Scratchpad or Tomboy.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
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> Luis
>
> [1] http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=760