[Geany] One more... Reload all.

[Dominic Hopf]

Am Donnerstag, den 04.02.2010, 20:00 +1100 schrieb Lex Trotman:
> On 4 February 2010 17:26, Joerg Desch <jd.vvd at web.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:21:52 +1100
> > Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>  If there is more than one such file I am likely to forget which ones
> >> I have to save under a different name until I check any conflicts.
> >
> > That was my thought too.
> >
> > What about adding the list of files affected to the dialog?
> 
> Thats certainly possible, but to be useful the dialog has to be
> non-modal so the user can do something about it.  That is a lot more
> work than just adding a button to the current dialog and using a
> non-modal message only dialog with the list of files. The standard GTK
> message dialog can arrange for itself to close IIRC.  Making files
> disappear off the list is for the wish list.
> 
> >
> > What about adding a checkbox to each entry to give the user the possibility to unselect some of the files.
> 
> And this means a custom dialog and handling, still if someone wrote it ...:-)
> 
> >
> > And what about a common checkbox to enable a "save action" where all files which have to be reloaded are saved with a postfix like "-RELOADED"? Here I'm not sure if this is necessary.
> >
> 
> As above.
> 
> >
> >> Maybe a list in a modeless dialog box so it can hang around, and the
> >> ultimate would be for Geany to change the list in the dialog as the
> >> conflict between unsaved and modified files goes away. ;-)
> >
> > The "add a postfix" action could supersede this!
> 
> Personally I don't like this sort of solution, it tends to clutter up
> working directories, Yes I know rm *-RELOAD would delete them, but you
> have to run it in each directory.
> 
> Cheers
> Lex

From the perspective of a User and GUI-Designer, here is some
inspiration how this could be done (Of course, that would need much work
underneath):

http://www.pnotepad.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/savemodified.png

Also it maybe would be an idea to add "Reload" and "Reload all" to the
popup menu when clicking on the document tabs.

Regards,
Dom

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