Re: [Usability]HIG proposal - "(Modified)"

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 13:48, Dave Malcolm wrote:

> This feels to me like a Good Thing To Do; the user gets an extra visual cue 
> about the state of the app, and reassurance that they're going to get a "Save 
> Confirmation Alert" if they close it.

Funnily enough, I was just thinking about this very thing when I was
using gedit yesterday, and realising that I was glad that it did it but
wished it did it differently :)  This would certainly be great to add to
the HIG, any suggestions as to what method we should choose?  

My personal choice would be something short at the beginning of the
window title (traditionally an asterisk has been used for this) since it
means there's no chance of missing the indicator if the window isn't
very wide.  But unless you know what this means, you might be
mystified.  

Any other suggestions?  Adding the stock "save" icon instead of the
asterisk might be pretty cool, especially if you could click on it to
save the file ;)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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