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Re: [udig-devel] Re: Udig: Problem of file saving
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Ok lets gather opinions, It would not be too much work to change
over to this paradigm.
Jesse
On 20-Sep-06, at 10:37 AM, Matthias Basler wrote:
Jesse wrote:
The semantics of saving is slightly different then what many expect.
Projects and maps are saved automatically on shutdown or when a map
is closed. Saving is actually for editing, when a in-memory layer is
part of the map saving will allow you to save the layer to a
shapefile
( or other datastores in the future).
Hi uDiggers,
may I suggest to think this decision over once more. From my
experience with user interfaces I can tell that what Coco expected
is what most new users will expect, including me. And in the light
of being "user-friendly", this is exactly how it should work.
1. When you add layers to a map you do so by "importing". So it
would be consequent to let the user "Export" in-memory layers to
shapefiles, not to "save" them.
2. Loading and saving in the file menu should imho be reserved to
projects and should work as in 95% of all software, in other words:
- "Load project" loads project and asks to save previous one, if
changed.
- "Save project" save the project.
- "Save as" saves with file dialog
- "Close project" closes the project, asking the user to save it if
it changed.
I believe that explicit saving of projects is important. Not always
do I want to save what I have on the map when leaving UDig.
Sometimes I'd rather discard any test maps I built.
Just my 2 cents.
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Matthias Basler
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