On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:57 AM, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So there are these buttons at the top of my worksheets saying "Save", > "Save & quit", "Discard & quit". What do they do? Do we need them? > Random comments: > > It seems to me that right now, "Save & quit" and "Discard & quit" do > the same thing: return to the list of active worksheets. For example, > I just opened a worksheet, made a tiny little change and hit "Discard > & quit". When I reopened the worksheet, the change was visible -- it > hadn't been discarded. So is there any actual difference between the > two? Should there be? If not, they should be consolidated into one > button: "Quit worksheet" or "Close worksheet".
That is a bug. > If we *do* want those buttons to have different behaviors, then here's > an idea: when you open a worksheet, you should actually be working on > copy of it, and the original one shouldn't be changed until you hit > "Save" or "Save & quit". If you hit "Discard", then the copy is > thrown away. Before you hit any of those buttons, the copy should be > on the list of active worksheets (in case there is a crash or > something like that). That's the intention. > Finally, whether those buttons do the same thing or not, their > behavior should also be changed as follows: if the list of worksheets > is already open in another tab or window (likely to be the case with > 3.4.1.rc1, for example), then clicking those buttons saves or discards > as necessary, then just closes the current tab/window, and perhaps > selects (and refreshes?) the window containing the list of worksheets > -- it shouldn't keep the current tab/window open displaying a second > copy of the list of worksheets. I don't know if that is possible. Hopefully it is. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
