On 08/03/2009 03:28 PM, Alexia Death wrote: > On Monday 03 August 2009 22:20:29 Sven Neumann wrote: >> On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 17:41 +0000, Omari Stephens wrote: >>> More specifically, once I hit Ctrl+E and see the status message not >>> saying anything about exporting, I expect the file to have been saved. >>> If GIMP thinks there were no changes, it should say "no changes to save" >>> in a way that is visible, easy to notice, and easy to read. >> It does exactly that. It will display the text "No changes need to be >> saved" in the status-bar and this text stays there for five seconds >> unless it is replaced by a more important status-bar message before this >> timeout expires. If that doesn't happen for you, then this code broke >> and there should be a bug report filed. > > Why only 5 seconds? why not until something else happens? IMHO 5 seconds is > not enough. > > --Alexia Alexia, One of my annoyances with a couple of other programs that I use a lot is that such types of messages stay around too long in those programs. What if you look at the screen 30 seconds or 5 minutes or 2 hours later that message is still there? It is now completely out of context! While maybe 5 seconds might be a little quick, conceptually I agree that it should not last very long. Maybe 8 or 10 seconds or even 15 seconds. But not longer. Jay _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
