On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 23:37 +0800, Christopher Lees wrote: > My favourite method of saving a document was in RiscOS; when you opened > the 'save' dialog, it was just a small window with the document icon, a > filepath and an OK button. When you were doing your initial save (or a > "Save As...") you just dragged the icon to where you wanted to save it > to. In subsequent saves, you just hit the OK button.
I have a slightly crazy idea. What if documents didn't have to be saved? You could just start writing (or doing whatever you do in the particular application), and the program magically remembers what you were doing in case you closed the program, or it crashed. Of course, you want to give documents names, so that should still be possible through some means. It's a bit like an e-mail application: you can give an e-mail a subject line or not, and as long as you don't send it, it's in the Drafts directory. Once you send it, it moves to the Sent directory. The only explicit way to save a document, would be to put it on removable media. You can have a nice "burn to cd" icon, or a "copy to USB stick icon". Or that dragging UI that you propose. I read somewhere that GNOME 3 is rethinking the saving documents concept, so maybe this will all be a moot point by then. -- Remco -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
