Re: The State of (in)Consistency of Save Confirmation Dialogs

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 12:04 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:

> You have two cases:
> 
> 1. Already-saved documents with modifications
> 2. Unsaved documents
> 
> When you exit the program, you don't want it to automatically save (1)
> to the existing filename since you may not want the document's changes
> to be on your "final" on-disk version.

In About Face 2.0, Cooper argues that there is no reason for a person to
not want to save the changes when the application is closed.  He
proposes to always save changes (possibly using some kind of
versioning / timestamping), and to provide a menu entry called "Abandon
Changes" for those rare cases where you really do want to abandon what
you did.

-- 
Bye,
-Torsten