Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Design for the split controls and tabs

2012/5/30 Jan Holesovsky <kendy@suse.cz>

> > Additionally, I'm wondering whether you could remove the indicator in
> > the status bar that shows whether a document has been changed since the
> > last time it was saved. Why not just use an asterisk (*) in the window
> > border, like gedit, glade etc?
>
> Apps used to do this years ago, but the trend was to abandon this, I
> guess; ie. not my preferred, sorry.

The trend was to abandon this, but in favor of using the "Save" icon as an
indicator -- other than LibreOffice, basically no app put it in the status
bar instead.

While I also don't like the asterisk, I really don't like the status bar
icon.
So how about this:
Since the only people that need the "saved status" indicator are ones that
opt to "allow to save document even when the document is not modified",
what if we only used the asterisk to indicate saved status if this option
was enabled, and got rid of the status bar icon altogether?

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