On 03/10/2015 01:18 AM, Alexander Larsson wrote: > Yeah, I'm not sure the "Save" name is ideal. What it really is is "here > is a new version of the file contents". Maybe something like > ReplaceContents() is better. That said, do we really want applications > to start saving to files automatically all the time, even without > triggering a save operation? I think a lot of people may be surprised by > that behaviour. And if so, how often do we save them? We can't save all > the time, that would be pretty poor performance.
This is not much of an issue when integrated with a system that can track changes to a file. I think some other operating systems did this in both the past and present. (OpenVMS for example). -- Christian _______________________________________________ gnome-os-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-os-list
