Part 2 on the Changed icon part.
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:31:44 +0100, Christoph Noack wrote:
DOCUMENT CHANGED INDICATION>
A solution should:
* just work
* be unobtrusive (don't catch attention if it isn't required,
don't waste space)
* be self-explanatory (if possible)
Right
Ideally, we would not need that status bar and change the "Save" icon
depending on whether there are changes that can be saved or not
(e.g. overlay it with a yellow asterisk or so). I am one of the persons
that agree that the save button should always work. But that doesn't
mean that the save button cannot convey information on whether it is
currently sensible to do so. (Alternatively gray it out if unmodified,
but still allow it to be pressed). This would be my favorite
solution. Putting that aside, let's work on making the status bar icon
non-annoying, our ideas are pretty much the same.
But the current solution isn't perfect, of course. Current issues:
* The extended help tip still mentions the '*' for a changed
document.
Right, tiny issue
* For unsaved documents, the normal tool tip mentions "The
document has not been modified since the last save." (Small
issue, may not be changed).
I don't have a problem with that, except that I have to mouse over an
apparently empty are to see that toolbar. Why not always have an icon
that changes appearance?
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