Re: [Usability] Modified Documents

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Boris Goldowsky wrote:

> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:09:30 -0400
> From: Boris Goldowsky <boris alum mit edu>
> To: Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>
> Cc: usability gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Usability] Modified Documents
>
> On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 12:09 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
>
> > Your comments make me think that the Status bar would be a more
> > approrpriate place to put an Icon indicating Read Only status.
>
> Why not adopt the NeXT & Mac OS X practice of putting a mark inside or
> over the 'close window' control?  It makes sense because if you are
> about to close a document window, that's the moment you need to be
> reminded that it has been modified.

Could you provide a sample (screenshot/mockup?) of what this looks like?

- Alan