While the file chooser has gotten lots of attention and improved dramatically in the last year, it's little cousin the save confirmation alert dialog has been sadly neglected.

I've compiled a bit of an inventory what is consistent and what is inconsistent about the save confirmation dialogs in a sampling of applications Gnome and Gtk applications.

This is *not* a complete review. Rather, I grab a sampling of apps that I use regularly and that I think would be commonly used among others.

The results of what I found are here:
http://actsofvolition.com/include/savealerts/

I've also put up a page with screenshots of the save dialogs from the apps I looked at: http://actsofvolition.com/include/savealerts/screenshots.html

I'm hoping this overview can help co-ordinate (or inspire) fixes for the offending apps/dialogs. I may try to assemble a bug list for the issues discussed in the article so progress can be tracked as well.

Feedback and corrections are encouraged - thanks,
Steven Garrity
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