Patches appreciated. 2010/1/6 Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com>: > >> From: Guilhem Bonnefille <guilhem.bonnefi...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [Viking-devel] Bug squashing for v1.0 >> To: Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> >> >>> ^S - save file associated with current window >>> ^W - close current window, prompting if modified. >>> exit if this is the last one. >>> ^Q - close all windows and exit, prompting if modified >> >> You're right. I think, the motivation to diverge was that it is >> particularly difficult to decide when a viking document is modified or >> not. In other words, when the user considers that its document is >> modified. For example, does the user expects to save its document when >> it simply open and move viewport to left? > > If you open a large text file with emacs and scroll down, it doesn't > modify the file. One of the things I really dislike about MS Office is > that looking at a file considers it modified. But, having a position > within the file remembered would seem to have some value. > >> But I agree with Greg: we need to restore standard notions. >> The question is: what about detecting document modifications. >> >> I'm not sure it will be easy to implement something to detect changes. >> >> Any idea? >> Should we always open a dialog like « Do you want to save your work? >> Yes/No » at closing? > > That would be annoying; often I try not to modify. I would go for: > > maintain a modified variable for each file > add a * to the titlebar when modified > encourgae people to file bugs if the * isn't sensible > > set modified flag when one of > > adding a layer > > changing a layer > modifying parameters: > (autoload, alpha, etc.) > waypoints, etc. > > reordering layers > > don't set modified flag on panning/zooming > > when saving, do write the pan/zoom info > > when ^S, do a save even if not modified (sort of covers the pan/zoom) > > when ^Q or ^W, prompt for save if modified > > possibly, add a global pref to say 'pan/zoom changes count as > modified' so those who want that can have them >
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