On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 22:38 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 22:20 +0100, Paolo Borelli wrote: > > Murray Cumming wrote: > > > > >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. > > > > > >I think it's meant as a way to upload files to external servers without > > >using nautilus. > > > > > >This seems both dangerously confusing and not consistent with other > > >applications. It's a plugin, so I personally wish it was turned it off > > >by default, even after the UI freeze. > > > > > > > > > > > The plugin is meant to to "save a copy" (who would have guessed :) ), of > > the current document to a local or remote location. I can understand how > > can you say that this can be confusing (just for the fact that it adds > > a menu item), but I don't see how it can be dangerous: > > It's too similar to Save As. People might think that Save Copy does what > Save As does, and then mistakenly delete the original, thinking that > their changes are in the copy. > > It's also not clear whether it saves a copy of the saved state (as a > Nautilus copy would) or the current unsaved state) > > Export would be clearer, but sounds like data conversion to me. >
Note that the "Save a Copy..." function is described by the GNOME HIG (see table 4.2 of http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/menus-standard.html#the-file-menu) as one of the standard items of the File menu. Regards, Paolo _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
