[squeakland] Created: (SQ-1144) When exiting Etoys, you should be asked if you want to save your work

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 24.12.2012, at 15:06, David Corking <lists at dcorking.com> wrote:

> Kathleen wrote, on the developers list (*) :
>> I agree with Bert, "explicit saving is the better trade off".
> 
> In the Quick Tips appendix of the new I3 book, the author says that
> Sugar saves automatically to the journal on exit. In the older (2011)
> version of Sugar that I have, this doesn't happen. Instead there is a
> Journal icon for explicit save. Should we document somewhere (in the
> I3 book or elsewhere) which versions this automatic save works in, and
> which it doesn't?
> 
> Can the user tell merely by looking at the icons in the toolbar?

Yes, if she sees the "stop" button, it might save automatically. It has the Sugar-standard octagonal shape with a dark square inside: 


If instead it shows a round "exit" button with a dark cross-mark on it, it won't save. This is the same icon as shown in Etoys on other platforms:



It mimics the "delete" halo handle. Also, on other UIs than Sugar, the cross is used widely as icon for closing a window.

- Bert -


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