Re: [Gaim-devel] Re: CVS: web/htdocs/gary bugs.xml,1.27,1.28

[Kevin M S. <ke...@si...>]

Richard Laager wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 17:20 -0500, Mark Doliner wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:37:23 -0700, Richard Laager wrote
>>> Doing a Conversation -> Save As only saves the text=20
>>> visible in the conversation window.
>=20
>> Should this be considered a bug?  It seems like saving only the text t=
hat is
>> visible would be the expected behavior.
>=20
> That's debatable. I listed it as the commit changed the behavior from
> oldstatus -> HEAD unintentionally. It doesn't really matter to me
> personally, as I use logging.
>=20
I agree with Mark.  The logical connection for the save function seems
to be to be save what's inside the conversation window.  I would think
it safe to assume these things:

1) If the user presses clear, they wanted to remove the text already in
the window.
2) If the user presses save, they want to keep the text they can
currently see in the window.
3) If the user wants to save everything they ever say, they should have
enabled logging.
4) If the user wanted to keep what he cleared, he wouldn't have cleared
it. (Except by accident, but hey, accidents happen.)

Now obviously that's not going to be true for every case, but for most
people, I would consider that expected, logical behavior.

Kevin