On 2009-11-15 19:22:16 +0100, Remco wrote: > On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 23:37 +0800, Christopher Lees wrote: > > My favourite method of saving a document was in RiscOS; when you opened > > the 'save' dialog, it was just a small window with the document icon, a > > filepath and an OK button. When you were doing your initial save (or a > > "Save As...") you just dragged the icon to where you wanted to save it > > to. In subsequent saves, you just hit the OK button. > > I have a slightly crazy idea. What if documents didn't have to be saved? > You could just start writing (or doing whatever you do in the particular > application), and the program magically remembers what you were doing in > case you closed the program, or it crashed. Of course, you want to give > documents names, so that should still be possible through some means.
Please also think about the use-cases where you *don't* want to save your changes. At work some documents are only used like a form: they get opened, filled out and printed. After that the document is closed again without saving the changes (so it's still empty at the next opening). I doubt those users would be happy that they need now to click several times "undo" to restore the document. And think also at the space-requirements for those "undo"s. Hard-disk space might be cheap today, but this data still needs to be loaded from disk (or even a network storage). And some operations might need much space for "undo"s, like in image-, video- or audio-editing. Michael -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
