[Geany] Enabling save after no changes

[Enrico Tröger]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:52:35 +1100, Lex Trotman <elextr at 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)


Regards,
Enrico

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