Re: Common Save Confirmation Dialogue

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

Hi Marc,

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 17:53 +0100, Marc O'Morain wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The inconsistency of the save changes confirmation has been mentioned
> a few times recently on the lists:
> 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2004-December/msg00084.html
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnumeric-list/2003-July/msg00033.html
> http://actsofvolition.com/include/savealerts/
> 
> At the moment, any application that asks the user to confirm that they
> want to save or discard changes has to implement the dialogue box
> themselves. This results in inconsistent dialogue boxes, and
> duplicated code and effort. It would make more sense to have a stock
> dialog box for such a common alert. My proposal is to add a
> GtkSaveConfirmationAlert as originally mentioned by Murray C, in
> December 2004.
> 
> The HIG recommends this as the layout for such an alert:
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig_new/images/save_alert.png

	Here's a pygtk version in case anyone needs it:

  http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/code/saveconfirm.py

> Does anyone have any objections to something like this being
> incorporated into GTK, or a better way to do this?

	Best to discuss this on gtk-devel list, really.

Thanks,
Mark.