[libreoffice-projects] Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2015-12-11

[David Tardon]

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 04:42:50PM +0100, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
> + Save button behavior (Samuel)
> 
>     + Save contains "Save as" and "Save remote" in a dropdown
>     + Dropdown was disabled when "Save" was disabled
>         -> Made the button dropdown only when save disabled https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/20079/
>     + However, this is quite irritating (button has two different modes, user doesn't know why he can't click save and later he can)
>     + Also users missing indication whether document is saved
>     + possible solutions:
>         + make only the dropdown active
>         + move the functionality to Save As
>     + what do you want from that button? (Heiko)
>         + is there a good reason to disable Save in the first place? (Heiko)
>             + we already have a user setting to enable Save all the time (Kendy)
>     + moving to Save As is a problem: wanted to hide it in the default toolbar
>     + Save status is in the status bar too (Kendy)
>         + not many people know about that though (Heiko)
>         + the information could be in the tooltip; even with additional info (Document is saved / Document is modified / ...) (Kendy) +1 (Stuart)
>         + eg. MSO has that enabled all the time (Samuel)

We could add "Edited" (or "Modified") to the title bar, like Apple
Keynote/Pages/Numbers do (they do not have "Save" in the toolbar, but
the menu item is always active too).

D.