On Wednesday 03 October 2007 23:02:37 Calum Polwart wrote: > Don't want to open a feature request on bugs.scribus.net till I've asked > about the possibility of this. > > I have my autosave set quite frequent as i'm using 1.3.4 for production > work (tut tut!) and it has an annoying habit of falling over a few > second before i remember to save myself. > > But on a 32 page document it can take 3 minutes to save. (Wonder if the > squeek coming from my hard drive slows it down!). Which can be a bit > frustrating. However what is even more frustrating is that with a 10min > auto save on (and only being able to work for 7 of those minutes - I > often find when I re-open scribus from minimised (I've maybe edited a > document in OO.o - I know its been sat unchanged for 20 minutes so why > is it autosaving at the point I open it? > > Could there be a flag someplace which says 'file changed since last > (auto)save' and if it = yes autosave runs if it = no then autsave isn't > needed. I'm not sure how easy that is for the software to then set the > flag every time the doc is changed... > > Does that make sense. > > gedit (text editor) on Ubuntu does this (somehow) where the save icon is > disabled if you've not made changes. As soon as you make changes it is > enabled == means at a glance I can see if I've edited a file.
Scribus does in fact work like this, however somewhere theres a little gremlin that sets the changed indicator too often... which I think we have a bug for. You are right, if no changes have been made the save button should remain disabled. Craig
