Mark Fletcher wrote: > Could you explain the functional difference between choosing the ?Save? > or ?Open? option? I see that the title of the dialog changes, but is > that the only difference?
The "Open" option forces you to choose an existing file. The "Save" option lets you specify the filename of a file to be created. > What would be the use cases for choosing one > or the other setting? > XMLmind XML Editor is a generic, extensible, editor. We don't have to imagine all the possible use cases for it. We prefer to implement something flexible, even if sometimes, this also means slightly inconvenient. > > Also, I think it would be convenient to provide the Absolute/Relative > options on the dialog itself, rather than (or in addition to) being > something you have to select before using the tool. This would also > serve to remind the user what their current setting is, in case it?s not > what they prefer to use in general. (I?m guessing this couldn?t be > supported if using the native OS chooser, though.) > I'm sorry if you find the right-click options for the file chooser inconvenient, but we cannot afford to spend more time trying to improve this feature.
