I’d love to have someone flesh out this “warning on quit” idea, because I can’t imagine it actually working in practice. Mostly because of confusion on what “saving” really means. Users should rightfully only consider that “saving their data” does exactly that, not that some of their data might differ and have to be “saved” in different ways.
As its simplest, imagine that you have no unsaved changes in your file (you just did a File/Save) yet there is orphaned data at the time you select “Quit”. What exactly does the warning say? “You have unlinked data that will be lost”? How do you communicate to the user what they should do now? Is there a way to offer to do it for them somehow, or is this warning going to just have an “Ignore” and “Cancel” button? Text that says “please mark anything you want to keep by marking the data with ‘fake user’”? That will not help a typical person being caught out by this Now imagine there are both unsaved changes and orphan data at the point of “quit”. We now have to warn about unsaved changes that can be “saved” and there are other things that should be “saved” in a different way before you “save” so that they are actually “saved”. So we have a button to cancel, one to save the unsaved changes while ignoring orphan data, and what else is on the dialog? I'm not sure there is sufficient lipstick that can be put on this pig. Harley _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org List details, subscription details or unsubscribe: https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
