On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Murray Cumming wrote: > Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 21:57:50 +0100 > From: Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Cc: Paolo Maggi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Usability] gedit's Save A Copy > > gedit 2.9 has a new feature - a "Save Copy" menu item, under "Save As". > It saves a copy of the document (I guess the current state, but maybe > the saved state), but afterwards you will be editing the original > instead of the new location.
"Save a Copy" is synonymous with "Export" Forgive me but I'll need to explain this, sorry if it seems pedantic, clarity is essential if this is going to make any sense. The functionality "Save a Copy" should take the current document state[1] and save it to the location specified as a new copy[2]. The difference between this and "Save as" is that with "Save as" the document you see in front of you will not be the orginal [1] anymore but instead you continue editing on the saved version [2]. With Save a copy you keep working on the original independantly of the copy. > I think it's meant as a way to upload files to external servers without > using nautilus. This should only be an incidental bonus and be made easier by how "Save a Copy" works. If you have a location on an external server mounted in some way you can periodically "Save a Copy" to that location while continuing to work on the current document which is safely on your local machine (which means less problems if the connection to the remote server is a bit dodgey). I hope I explained that clearlly enough to help you better decide if you think this feature needs to be changed. I think I may have already read the feature request describing how they intended it to work and I do hope there were able to do it without breaking the standard idea of how Save a Copy is supposed to work. I hope the Gedit maintainer can clarify (either way I hope this new feature is well documented). Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
