Sorry for the elementary remarks. I'm back to gnucash after an
abortive try at it some time ago.
To close the application, one must save the data, but the Save As...
dialog that opens strikes me as ambivalent when it comes to the file
name. Displayed is a log file with the current date. While one
intuitively does not think of a "log" as a save, it almost looks like
it is being suggested as the default filename.
I think the user needs a little direction here. Perhaps nothing more
than a label next to the filename textfield that says to create a new
save-file name here. Although neither used nor needed, telling the
user to use a .sav extenion to the file name might remove some
ambiguity. Also, should the user incorporate the current date in the
save file name, in the manner of the log file? If a subsequent Save
simply replaces the old Save file, a file name incorporating the date
would be inappropriate. Perhaps both points would be addressed to some
extent with a label that includes a sample file name.
It would also be nice to see some feedback, such as "Your data saved
as ~/filename.sav". That would be comforting, because people often get
to this point after a lot of work entering information, and are
paranoid about loosing it.
Perhaps even add to the dialog or the feeback a very simple indication
of how one recovers old data should there be a disastor. That would be
comforting. The dialog seems to have the room for some more labels.
I think someone mentioned an auto-save feature, and that sure would be
nice, too, especially if there were a disable option in a
Preferences... dialog. How about a single autosave after 30 minutes of
no activity in the Registry window?
Sorry to belabor these points, but I'll bet many folks are as paranoid
as I am about saving data and backups, and so the process of a Save
should be both very explicit and very clear.
Haines Brown
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