On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:24:12 +1100, Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
2009/1/28 Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:52:35 +1100, Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
I just don't want to clutter the prefs dialog with such an option which is maybe unimportant for most users. What about changing the default behaviour to what you want and add a hidden pref for people like me? Though I personally would still feel this as a regression (i.e. removing existing features) but I also realise that people think different than me :).
My two cents, I agree with Enrico, I like to be able to look up at the toolbar and see that everything is saved before I leave my desk or attend to other interruptions so I'd prefer the current behavior to be the default.
Whilst I understand the use of saving to update timestamps etc I think that indicating saved data is a more common and important function that I wouldn't want taken away,
There does not seem to be a consistent GUI solution as an alternative to making the save inactive.
But some indication on the file tab seems to be used by several applications and is reasonably useful if the indication is visible enough. Applications don't agree on how to indicate saving is needed but some options are by colour change, adding one or two * or adding or changing an icon in the tab. One of these should be used if the save actions are permanently available, what do people think?
We already have red-coloured tabs for changed files, red-coloured filenames in the document list in the sidebar, we put a "MOD" flag in the statusbar and finally we prepend the window title with an asterisk. So, we already have all that visual indicators.
(Admittedly, the MOD flag in the statusbar is no real indication, at least it's very easy to miss :D)
Yeah I missed it, in fact I've now discovered that there is lots of
information down there, wow ;-) but its only for the current file anyway, On my Geany the tab doesn't go red only the text, and this isn't very clear, dark red (actually any dark colour) looks very similar to black if monitor brightness is low.
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough: the tab label text colour goes red, not the tab itself. Though I don't think we should change this except for maybe making the red colour value configurable.
I still vote for keeping the status quo as default.
Yup, it will stay as it is, plus a hidden option for those who want to change it from the current behaviour.
Regards, Enrico