Hi Chris, We actually do have that check for some things to prevent loss, but I guess it's not working for the review request fields. Thought we had that... Anyway, yes, we should get that in for the next 1.5.x. Would you mind filing a bug on this?
The Control-S is a good idea too. I think that's worth supporting. Christian On Friday, January 21, 2011, Chris Clark <chris.cl...@ingres.com> wrote: > I've recently been using a laptop with forward/back keys. These are > "conveniently" located by the arrow/cursor keys. In a web browser these keys > are the equivalent of alt-left/right (or the backwards/forwards on screen > button). > > I've just spent the last 10 mins re-entering (multiple times) in text for a > review description as I fat fingered the back key. I'd not hit the SAVE > button and so I lost my work (the save button was physically off screen due > to the size of the description box.text, saving is a real pain with the > current UI if you have lots of text). I have lost work a few times in the > past by clicking on bug numbers to remind myself (or copy/paste from) what to > put into the description but this is the first time fat-fingers have caused > me to loose review work. > > I see this behavior on all versions (including 1.6 alpha on > http://reviews.reviewboard.org/ ). > > The other (more) minor annoyance is that I sometimes hit CTRL-s thinking that > this will save (I'm just used to that combo) which of course doesn't work :-) > It tends to call the web browser save as html dialog. > > Has anyone else had similar issues? This is an user error but it is a UI > annoyance that could be handled in Reviewboard. I've 2 ideas: > > 1) support CTRL-S for saving - Google docs does this as does gmail, it is a > small but awesome thing :-) > > 2) if the description (or testing, etc.) has been updated and navigation is > attempted send up a pop-up "are you sure?", gmail does this when composing an > email and it has not yet been saved. webchat on freenode does this too, it > can even detect window/tab closing. > > Comments? This isn't meant to be a complaint, I'm trying to see if I'm the > only one seeing this. > > Chris > > > -- > Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at > http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ > Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en -- Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en
