Am Monday 30 July 2007 schrieb Dmitry A. Kuminov: > nospam312 wrote: > >> It does exactly what it should. Your mistake is that along with > >> discarding the snapshot, you also discard the current state (see the > >> previous reply). > > > > Thanks my mistake - simple when you know how! Perhaps "Discard > > Snapshot and Merge" would be a better name for the "Discard Snapshot" > > menu item if it also merges. > > Merging always takes place when you discard a snapshot with hard disks. > Putting the word "merge" to the action name seems not a good option for > me for two reasons: 1) "merge" requires two subjects (what is merged > into what) which makes it harder to understand what it does when we say > just "merge" w/o properly naming both subjects; 2) we cannot make the > action screen-name too long by putting the complete description into it :) > > Anyway, thank you for the feedback. We are working on making the > Snapshot UI easier to understand. There will be at least a section in > the context sensitive help that will describe every snapshot action in > detail and with examples. The whole snapshot function is complicated "by > design" and not yet widely used, which adds extra difficulty for > understanding it by newbies. > > -- > keep cool, > Dmitry A. Kuminov > Why not call it "merge down" or "mergo to later"
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