Feature Requests item #1741236, was opened at 2007-06-22 02:42
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Category: User interface
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>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Alan Horkan (horkana)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: better name for untitled documents

Initial Comment:
I think it would be better to name documents something like "Animation 1" or 
"Project 1" rather than using the uninformative "Untitled1".  (There lack of a 
space between the word untitled and the number is what intially drew my eye to 
this minor problem.)  

The idea being that even "Untitled" is a title and a not particularly useful 
title if found on a document in folder full of other similarly Untitled 
documents.  Not sure if you are familiar with the software Dia a GTK 
application for drawing diagrams but there I made a suggestion to change the 
default document name to from "Untitled" to "Drawing"

A patch is better than no patch but the very simple patch I've provided changes 
the word "Untitled" to "Animation " and is only really intended to make my 
suggestion clearer.  It is entirely possible that there might be better choices 
than Animation, perhaps Drawing/Project/Movie (although Movie is a bit too 
American for my liking) but I do hope you will consider making this small 
change.  

Thanks in advance

Alan 


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>Comment By: dooglus (dooglus)
Date: 2008-02-01 15:21

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Finally fixed in svn r721 over 4 months ago.  Just forgot to update this
bug report.

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Comment By: dooglus (dooglus)
Date: 2007-09-19 11:56

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"attention to detial" made me laugh.  Good one.  :)

Ulrik pointed out to me recently that if you save a document using the
default name (which you're more likely to do now that it's put into the
file selector as the default when saving), then every time you save the
document from then on, it shows the file selector.

It does this for any document whose name begins "Synfig Animation".

(This isn't new - it used to do the same if the name began "untitled", but
that was less common I suppose).

So that was the benefit of using an ugly name - it persuaded the user to
think of a better name immediately, rather than settling for the
meaningless default name.

A better fix would be to make a note when a document is created that the
filename was automatically generated and that the user hasn't OK'ed it yet,
and to clear that mark the first time he does, so the 'save as' dialog only
appears once per document.

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Comment By: Alan Horkan (horkana)
Date: 2007-09-18 15:40

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thanks dooglus, your attention to detial is much appreciated

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Comment By: dooglus (dooglus)
Date: 2007-09-18 15:04

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Thanks for the report.

I just implemented this in svn r708.  I used 'Synfig Animation' as the
default name, and got the file selector dialog to default to that name when
saving for the first time.  Also, the count starts at 1 now, not zero.

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