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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Apr 14 18:50:24 +0000 2008 ------- I would like to propose leaving Save icon's behavior unchanged for now since we would need more studies on various user scenarios including Kohei's one. For instance, current behavior around Save function is too simple and is not capable of avoiding overwriting a document file. Scenario A 1. User A ) Opens a document file X on the file server. 2. User B) Opens the same document file X on the file server. 3. User A ) Starts to modify it. 4. User B) Starts to modify it. 5. User A ) Saves it. 6. User B) Saves it. What will happen? The efforts done by the user A will be completely lost by user B's overwriting the file. No warning will be reported. How can we avoid such a situation? File lock? Maybe no. File lock sometimes causes more complicated problems. If an application software on a laptop PC locks a file on the file server and then the PC's Ethernet cable is unplugged, how can we unlock the file? The editor Emacs gives us a good solution. It seems to use a time stamp of file or something else to find if a file has been changed. On the above user scenario Emacs will warn at step 6 prompting "X has changed since visited or saved. Save anyway? (yes or no)" Scenario B 7. User A ) Opens a document file X on the file server. 8. User B) Opens the same document file X on the file server. 9. User A ) Starts to modify it. 10. User A ) Saves it. 11. User B) Starts to modify it. 12. User B) Saves it. Emacs will warn at step 11 prompting "X changed on disk; really edit the buffer? (y, n, r or C-h)" So user B will be warned and given a chance to choose what to do. Where 'r' denotes 'revert' - the contents of the buffer are refreshed from the file on disk. 'C-h' means pressing a key 'h' with holding a Ctrl key and shows a help message. If user B answers the prompt with 'y' and moves on to the step 12, the user will be prompted with the same warning message as the step 6. So what i want to say here is that if we try to change behavior of the Save icon button, its specifications could be somewhat more sophisticated to cover various user scenarios, especially for enterprise use. Please, please do not jump to quick conclusions. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
