Re: [Usability] Merge Open/Save (was "Re: Save Icon")

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com> wrote:
> the DISK command
> could be replaced 
> by the Eject command, which could perform any
> necessary saving before 
> ejecting the disk. The Macintosh could have made
> this possible since it 
> had software-eject-only floppy drives, but Gnome
> cannot. Fortunately, 
> nowadays floppy disks are nearly obsolete.
> Unfortunately, we now have 
> USB keys with the same problem.

What about "save because there might be a power cut"?
Or "save because I'm going to make a coffee and my cat
might jump on the keyboard"? or just "save because I'm
paranoid about crashes"?

>  The 
> only one of those I object to is "Save As..." (or,
> as I'd call it, 
> "Make a Copy..."), because we still use lots of
> removable media.

"Save As..." and "Make a Copy..." are different. One
moves focus to the new filename, the other does not.


	
	
		
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