From: Michelle E. <mic...@gm...> - 2004-07-06 19:26:31
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Hi, I vote for 2. I think it's the clearest and easiest way. No confusion. Michelle Alex Roitman schrieb: > Well, I have seen exactly three responses on gramps-users, and they were all > different, specifically, one vote for each option suggested: > > 1. "Save as" which would take care of everything, by Roy > 2. "Save as" for native file saving under different name, > and Export for saving into other formats, by Jim > 3. "Save a copy" and Export, or just Export alone, for all > formats, by Jeff. > > I personally was in favor of (1), and Don liked (2). I might be leaning > towards (2) now, but it would be nice to get more people voicing their > preferences. > > Speak now, or hold your peace forever! > (At least as far as this issue is concerned :-) > > Alex > > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 07:28:25PM -0500, Alex Roitman wrote: > >>Now the question is what do we do with Save/Export functions. The >>File->Save item is gone, because saving the edited database is no >>longer necessary: all the changes are committed immediately and the >>database is always in the "saved" state. There might be a need, however, >>to (1) save present grdb database under another name and (2) save present >>data in another format (GEDCOM, GRAMPS XML, GRAMPS package, Web Family >>Tree, CD Burner, and maybe more in the future. >> >>One way of supporting the above functions is to have "File->Save as" >>item and File->Export item. The former will save the database under >>another name and open it, so the database under the new name is >>edited. The latter would save data in non-native format: export it. >> >>Another possibility would be to use "Save as" for both cases, and >>allow file chooser filter to select an output format. This would >>be similar to File->Open way of doing things. >> >>Yet another possibility would be to have "Save a copy" and Export. >>"Save a copy" would save grdb under another name, but not load it. >>The copy would be "laid away" and not edited in the current session. >> >>I would like to solicit user feedback as to what the preferred arrangement >>of menu items should be. Some programs (like GIMP) have both Save as >>and Save a Copy (no export though :-), while other have other combinations >>of the above. >> >>Please post your opinion and let's discuss it so that the meaningful >>consensus can be reached. Maybe there're some other options that >>I haven't listed above. The goal would be to have a simple, intuitive, >>and powerful interface: as few interface elmenets as possible to >>inambuguously enable everything we can offer to the user. > > |