[Github-comments] [geany/geany] An insufficient behavior when an open file was updated outside Geany (#1885)

[dyura]

Just another remark. I took a quick look at gedit. Their info bar has two
buttons: "Reload" and "Ignore". The buffer is also unmodifiable. After I
press Ignore and tried to save I got another info bar with  buttons: "Save
anyway" and  "Don't save".  (That was basically my very first point. But,
you explained why gedit and geany behaviors are different )
However, if you found that the result is in fact "terrible", no problem,
we definitely can leave everything as is.

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:53 PM Yury Dubinsky <yury.dubinsky at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well, just one more remark. Currently after the Info bar appears the
> buffer becomes unmodifiable.So, we can't do anything with the content
> until we make a decision. Isn't it?
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 5:39 PM elextr <notifications at github.com> wrote:
>
>> No, "Undecided" is not a good button label. I suggested it as a way to
>> try to gently imply that I thought the whole thing was getting silly. Sorry
>> that you took it seriously.
>>
>> Info bars are meant to convey information that is important but not
>> urgent, it does not need immediate resolution. So info bars deliberately do
>> not stop normal operations, unlike dialogs which must be actioned
>> immediately. Thats why the file change notification was moved from a dialog
>> to an info bar. The fact that the file on disk has changed does not need to
>> be actioned immediately, the info bar does not need to be dismissed,
>> editing can continue and the bar remains as a reminder. So info bars should
>> not occupy large amounts of screen space and by that criteria I am afraid
>> the result is in fact "terrible".
>>
>> The button label "Cancel" is the standard GUI button label for "close and
>> do nothing" so that is what that button should be (in English anyway).
>>
>> Since info bars do not block the user interface (unlike dialogs) the user
>> is not restricted to just the options the info bar provides. So there is no
>> need to provide copious options on the info bar. As @codebrainz
>> <https://github.com/codebrainz> pointed out you still have access to the
>> normal features of the application. For example, in the case of an
>> unexpected file change notification a user could decide to load the changed
>> file into another buffer to look at it, see what changed, and decide what
>> to do. The info bar does not need a "Load file into another buffer" button
>> to allow them to do that.
>>
>> The info bar should only have "Cancel" and maybe the most common
>> operation available as a convenience.
>>
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