Save Dialog Whiteboard

Save Confirmation Dialog HIG compliance in some Gnome/Gtk Apps

See an overview of save confirmation dialogs in some popular Gnome/Gtk apps.

The keyboard shortcuts for "Close without Saving" and "Cancel" will be fixed in the HIG pending the patch on this bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162947

A simple PyGTK implementation: http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/code/saveconfirm.py

GTK-list thread on added a common dialgue to GTK. Corresponding bug.

Close without saving

Cancel

Save and close

Key Behaviour

Application

Alert Window Title

Label

Hotkey

Label

Hotkey

Label

Hotkey

Enter

Escape

Gnome HIG Recommendation

none

Close without Saving

Alt+C

Cancel

Alt+C

Save

Alt+S

Save

???

GEdit 2.9.5

none

Close without Saving

Alt+W

Cancel

Alt+C

Save

Alt+S

Save

Cancel

Gimp 2.2.2

Close [filename]

Don't Save

Alt+N

Cancel

Alt+C

Save

Alt+S

Save

Cancel

Evolution 2.0.2

Warning: Modified Message

Discard Changes

Alt+D

Cancel

Alt+C

Save

none

Save

Cancel

Gthumb 2.4.2 (confirmations disabled by default)

none

Do Not Save

none

none

none

Save As

Alt+A

Save

Cancel

AbiWord 2.2.0

none

Close Without Saving

Alt+W

Cancel

Alt+C

Save

Alt+S

Save

Cancel

Gnumeric 1.2.13

Warning

Discard

none

Don't Close

none

Save

Alt+S

Save

Cancel

OpenOffice.org Writer 1.1.2 Note: Buttons in reverse order

OpenOffice.org 1.1.2

Discard

Alt+D

Cancel

none

Save

none

Save

Cancel

Thunderbird

Save Message

Don't Save

Alt+D

Cancel

none

Save

Alt+S

Save

Cancel

Bluefish 1.0

bluefish

Don't save

Alt+N

Cancel

Alt+C

Save

Alt+S

Save

Cancel

Dia 0.94

Close Diagram

Discard Changes

none

Cancel

Alt+C

Save

Alt+S

Save

Cancel

Glade 2.6.0

Glade

Quit

Alt+Q

Cancel

Alt+C

none

none

Close without saving

Cancel

Meld 0.9.4.1

Save modified files?

Quit

Alt+Q

Cancel

Alt+C

OK

Alt+O

Cancel

Cancel

Inkscape 0.39

Warning

Close without saving

Alt+W

Cancel

Alt+C

Save

Alt+S

Save

Cancel

I'd love to see something for SaveOverwriteDialogs too, for when the user uses Save As and chooses an existing file. MurrayCumming


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Attic/UsabilityProject/Whiteboard/SaveDialog (last edited 2014-07-10 23:07:15 by AllanDay)