| Summary: | Documents Modified on Disk: Case "Deleted": Add "Close Document" button | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kate | Reporter: | Gregor Mi <codestruct> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | bugseforuns, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | usability |
| Version First Reported In: | 19.04.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
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| Attachments: | File Modified on Disk | ||
+1, I find myself briefly confused when I see this dialog as well. I think we need a larger UX overhaul. I have no idea what any of the buttons on the bottom will do. Here are my approximate reactions to each of them:
- Overwrite ("What's being overwritten? I thought the document was deleted!")
- Reload ("How do you reload a document that's been deleted?")
- Ignore Changes ("What does this do? Huh?")
:-) There are tooltips on the buttons explaining things at bit more. But the buttons and the tooltips were apparently not written with the "Deleted" case in mind. Here I get a non-windowed message asking "Close File", "Save As", and "Ignore". Was this recently improved for version 19.08? "Document modified on disk" window was very confuse to me too. I can confirm Christoph's comment when using Kate 19.12.1 and I think that this issue is now solved. Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.17.90 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.66.0 Qt Version: 5.14.1 Agreed. Much nicer now. |
Created attachment 123049 [details] File Modified on Disk I often run into a situation where I move or delete a file on disk. Then the attached dialog appears. It has three options: - Overwrite - Reload - Ignore Changes It would be helpful to have a "Close Document" button that closes the document that was associated with the deleted (or moved) file.