What about popping up the outliner / orphan data window in quit, and showing exclamation icon somewhere if there is a orphan
On Mon, May 16, 2022, 9:15 AM Harley Acheson via Bf-committers < bf-committers@blender.org> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org List details, subscription details or unsubscribe: https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
