Re: SaveAs label?
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. The development version now displays the current filename in the main window title bar. Would that be enough? Yes, for once a user knows the text is in the title bar, he'll easily remember to glance there for the confirmation. Thanks for your reply to my questions; reassuring. Haines Brown -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SaveAs label?
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 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SaveAs label?
Haines Brown writes: Sorry for the elementary remarks. I'm back to gnucash after an abortive try at it some time ago. All comments are welcome, thanks. 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. The development version now displays the current filename in the main window title bar. Would that be enough? 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. The dialog is the standard one from gtk+, and is hard to modify. What I'd like to do is add recovery to the GUI in the main window, under the File menu. 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? I think we're going to go with automatic recovery from logs. This is similar to autosaving, but is, essentialy, continuous autosaving without the overhead of writing the database each time. 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. Paranoia is good, thanks for your comments :) dave -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SaveAs label?
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? We already maintain a log, which does not eat disk in huge chunks. All that is needed is to enable gnucash to read the log. -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
