--- Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the DISK command
> could be replaced
> by the Eject command, which could perform any
> necessary saving before
> ejecting the disk. The Macintosh could have made
> this possible since it
> had software-eject-only floppy drives, but Gnome
> cannot. Fortunately,
> nowadays floppy disks are nearly obsolete.
> Unfortunately, we now have
> USB keys with the same problem.
What about "save because there might be a power cut"?
Or "save because I'm going to make a coffee and my cat
might jump on the keyboard"? or just "save because I'm
paranoid about crashes"?
> The
> only one of those I object to is "Save As..." (or,
> as I'd call it,
> "Make a Copy..."), because we still use lots of
> removable media.
"Save As..." and "Make a Copy..." are different. One
moves focus to the new filename, the other does not.
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