Haines Brown writes:
> Sorry for the elementary remarks. I'm back to gnucash after an
> abortive try at it some time ago.
All comments are welcome, thanks.
> To close the application, one must save the data, but the Save As...
> dialog that opens strikes me as ambivalent when it comes to the file
> name. Displayed is a log file with the current date. While one
> intuitively does not think of a "log" as a save, it almost looks like
> it is being suggested as the default filename.
>
> I think the user needs a little direction here. Perhaps nothing more
> than a label next to the filename textfield that says to create a new
> save-file name here. Although neither used nor needed, telling the
> user to use a .sav extenion to the file name might remove some
> ambiguity. Also, should the user incorporate the current date in the
> save file name, in the manner of the log file? If a subsequent Save
> simply replaces the old Save file, a file name incorporating the date
> would be inappropriate. Perhaps both points would be addressed to some
> extent with a label that includes a sample file name.
>
> It would also be nice to see some feedback, such as "Your data saved
> as ~/filename.sav". That would be comforting, because people often get
> to this point after a lot of work entering information, and are
> paranoid about loosing it.
The development version now displays the current filename in the main
window title bar. Would that be enough?
> Perhaps even add to the dialog or the feeback a very simple indication
> of how one recovers old data should there be a disastor. That would be
> comforting. The dialog seems to have the room for some more labels.
The dialog is the standard one from gtk+, and is hard to modify.
What I'd like to do is add recovery to the GUI in the main window,
under the File menu.
> I think someone mentioned an auto-save feature, and that sure would be
> nice, too, especially if there were a disable option in a
> Preferences... dialog. How about a single autosave after 30 minutes of
> no activity in the Registry window?
I think we're going to go with automatic recovery from logs. This is
similar to autosaving, but is, essentialy, continuous autosaving
without the overhead of writing the database each time.
> Sorry to belabor these points, but I'll bet many folks are as paranoid
> as I am about saving data and backups, and so the process of a Save
> should be both very explicit and very clear.
Paranoia is good, thanks for your comments :)
dave
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