On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 03/05/10 20:41, Diego Moya wrote: > > So my four dimensions for cloud storage are these: > > - Location: Connected vs Disconnected. > > - Speed: Fast vs Slow medium. > > - Persistence: Saved vs Unsaved. > > - Sharing: Published vs Private. > > > > I think this is good analysis and an interesting idea. > > +1 to the meme of autosaving, autoversioning, and persistent undo (undo > that survives quit). > +1 to the idea of automatic replication. > > I'm pretty certain this should not be per-file, though. The idea should > be to convey the state of the device in general, and perhaps of an > individual application. This is the 21st century moral equivalent of the > "dirty" bit, the indication that a file needed saving. > I'm not crazy about autoversioning, because it becomes awfully difficult to find what you need if you have a revision for every line that you ever changed. I'd rather see a model where every file is saved automatically and "Hard Saves" provide a way for the user to commit a revision.
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