On 30/11/10 15:24, Kohei Yoshida wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 16:11 +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: >> Kohei Yoshida wrote: >>>> b) We warn when closing a modified doc anyway, so there is no need to >>>> always warn me and use up precious space. I propose to just do away >>>> with it. >>> Sorry I have to disagree there. I'm the one who put that icon there, >>> and the reason for that was to have a visually obvious way to tell >>> whether or not the document is currently modified. >>> >> Hi Kohei, >> >> ok, but maybe there are other means to get that info across? > Sure, if you have any good suggestions. > Copy the way WordPerfect does it? >> The >> status bar, generally, uses up precious horizontal screen real >> estate, for very little benefit. > Well, status bar contains info about status, and document modified > "status" fits the bill, no? ;-) > >> -- Thorsten, who likes the '*' prefix on the window title bar > Indeed, but just to put this in prospective, I've received tons of angry > emails from users when I suggested to always enable the save icon. They > also said that things like a small '*' in the title bar would not be > obvious enough.
Would the word "unmodified" do it? Pretty much all the *Perfect suite display the document name in the title bar, and then if it's unmodified they put "(unmodified)" after the document name. I don't normally give a monkeys about the document status, but that uses space that otherwise wouldn't be used for anything and, if done across writer, calc, basically all the components :-) would provide a neat way of passing the information to the user, at no cost of valuable currently-used screen estate. > Obviously many users feel very *emotional* about this issue, and I found > it out the hard way. > > Kohei > Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
