On 5/28/12 7:14 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote:
Apple's solution to the "Save As..." problem was simple: get rid of the "Save As..." command, and replace it with a "Duplicate" command. The "Duplicate" command forces the user to make a copy of the document FIRST. If you open a document and start hacking at it before duplicating it, you always know that you are hacking at your ORIGINAL. As hard a concept as this might be for us, 'oldies', who were used to doing things the other way around, trust me when I say, that new users find this *a lot* more intuitive.
Yes, I understand the new user thing, but I am not a new user. Apple should give us a choice.
What usually happens to me is that I start to make a few changes, get carried away, and *then* decide that I've strayed far enough that I want to save off a copy rather than to commit the original. At that point it's too late to duplicate; I didn't know I was going to want a copy when I started.
The Star Wars reversion is too difficult to work with. If your document is more than one page long it is impossible to figure out which version you need to revert to. There is no way to compare them and if the change is somewhere on page 327 then you have to page through 327 pages in every one of them to see what "version" you're looking for. And that's if you even remember what page it's on. Was the copy I wanted from five minutes ago? An hour? When did I start this anyway? How long ago was that change I made in chapter seven?
I'm in grumpy mode, sorry. I understand that Apple wants to protect us from ourselves, but I can manage these things myself and I don't appreciate Apple's parenting decisions.
Those in the U.S. may know about a comic strip here called Crankshaft. That's me.
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