[Sugar-devel] Nobody understands "Keep"

[Martin Dengler]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 11:22:16AM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 10:45 +0100, Martin Dengler wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:52:23AM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:
> > > Nobody in the world seems to understand the Keep button. People think
> > > it's for regular saving and you should do it before you close or switch
> > > away from your activity.
> > 
> > That's not far from the truth, right?  At least in any work-losing or
> > surprising way...
> 
> It's far from the truth in that it's not normally what you want to
> do.

My quoting-foo is bad, so I've caused confusion (in myself, too :)).

> To save your work, simply click the Stop button or change so that
> another activity has focus. If you click Keep, you'll end up with 2
> copies - one from when you clicked Keep, and one from when you clicked
> Stop (or focused on another activity).
> 
> As far as I understand it, Keep is useful for these types of scenarios:
> - you've done a lot of work but now it's time to refactor/reorganize the
> whole thing. However you want to keep a copy of the rough version you
> have now, as "insurance" or perhaps for reference while you re-mangle
> the work.
> - you've made a template for something, now you want to save that
> template (as a blank template) before starting on a version where you
> fill in the content.

This is a great explanation -- it should be in the HIG or something.

> Daniel

Martin
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