[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 123559] *unsaved state of document could be indicated with asterix -- having unsaved changes

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123559

--- Comment #6 from peter josvai <jepe at cspv.hu> ---
hi, 

as I wanted to file an enhancement suggestion, I've bumped into this...
and I said, cool, I'll read it... especially since it was resolved...

then I saw it was filed by me...

in any case:
I wanted to file it again today...

so there must be a "valid need for this"...

my user character: I write a lot, I'm a journalist

as to the asterisk indication:
we can say that it is a universal "sign" of the modified document...
like green traffic light of "walk, you can cross"...

but either way...
what happened is that the traditional way of indicating the document has
changed
was taken out...

and a small icon at the bottom of the application window 
is supposed to indicated that..

why?
why make the writers have to look at the bottom of the window, too, before
closing a file?

in today's intuitive visual environment, such an extra move is inexplicable...

if you guys don't like, for some reason the old and universal visual expression
-- the indication of a modified file -- you could still respect the application
users' adopted behavior: that they (we) look at the top of the application
window when closing or saving a file...

having to make an extra trip down to the bottom is irrational...


if you want to modernize, you have to "organically" about it...
respecting the visual traditions, language, etc :) :)


- - - -
from this state...
- - - -


from this state, I'd suggest to keep the bottom indication, too...
and add a COLORED indication just before the filename...
an orange asterisk, for example :)

imagine how cool that was! *this_document_has_been_modified
why not allow the users enjoy using the application? :)

and in this case, we would have adopted TWO motifs 
of what's been in use...

we would keep the indication at the bottom (which one has to look for, cause
not only the bottom but also its horizontal position needs to be found)...
plus the coloring technique! :)

the next stage would thus have what's been in used, but in an improved way! :)
I'd personally find it a very good development...
cause just in the past couple of days, I have run into 
this problem -- thinking it has been saved, but it hasn't, and then not being
able to figure by hitting CRTL+Z what was the last modification -- as many
times as I thought, all right, I'll take some 20-30 minutes to report this
enhancement suggestion...



I hope you'll reconsider...
and I'm sure, once you ask your testing community what they think, 
they'll vote "please let us have the colored asterisk" and not "we don't think
it's even necessary"...
I mean, you should just try...


Peter


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