Hi Christoph, 2012/5/31 Christoph Noack <christ...@dogmatux.com>
> Hi Alex, all! > > Am Mittwoch, den 30.05.2012, 16:42 +0200 schrieb Alexander Wilms: > > actually, the save icon in the top toolbar should be enough, don't you > > think? It's greyed out if there's nothing to save and makes the > > indicator superfluous. > > Well, that was the case some versions ago - then the current behavior > (save icon is always active) has been introduced. Reason: There has been > customer feedback targeted at the Sun OOo UX Team that people wish to > press that button at any time - just to be sure that the document is > really saved. So here its not about real logic, but about people to feel > "safe". > This is only a setting, and it's disabled by default (at least on my machine). Out of interest, could you point me to the feedback you mentioned? > > Concerning using of the asterisk in the title bar - also that issue has > been discussed from time to time. From my (personal) point-of-view, this > indicator does not reveal its meaning clearly. Almost the same is true > for the current status bar indicator - but of course it's just there > because of the cool TDF symbolism ;-) > So, finally, if there is a need to further cleanup the status bar, then > I'd propose to go with "(unsaved)" instead of the asterisk for the title > bar. Example for unsaved changes: > Strategy Document (unsaved) - LibreOffice Writer > Fine with me, as long as it only happens if the "allow to save document even when the document is not modified" setting is on. > > Of course there are plenty of alternatives - introducing stuff like a > proxy icons (similar to Mac OS X), or extending the "Save Icon" by an > own indicator. Or ... > To be honest, I feel like this is too much complication to satisfy a very small fraction of the userbase, at a cost to the general userbase. Every other application I know disables "Save" when the file is saved, and there's not any consumer backlash there. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
