[Geany] Enabling save after no changes

[Enrico Tröger]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:24:12 +1100, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com>
wrote:

>2009/1/28 Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>
>
>> 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)
>>
>> 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

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