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Bug 376739

Summary: Site auto-saving not obvious
Product: [ECD] Orion Reporter: John Arthorne <john.arthorne>
Component: ClientAssignee: Mark Macdonald <mamacdon>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: mamacdon
Version: 0.4   
Target Milestone: 1.0 M1   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
Whiteboard:

Description John Arthorne CLA 2012-04-13 11:59:37 EDT 
0.5 M1

I was trying out the new auto-save feature on the Sites page, and found it too subtle. Without paying careful attention to the little asterisk in the title I wouldn't know what is happening. Some suggestions:

 - Get rid of the Save button. Auto-saving page typically don't also need a save button (think google docs). Seeing the Save button makes me think I need to push it.
 - Add an "Auto saved" message when save occurs. Maybe this would be too noisy with the way our progress messages appear (status message with timeout).
Comment 1 Mark Macdonald CLA 2012-05-22 10:56:08 EDT 
Will look at removing the Save button for RC1...
Comment 2 Mark Macdonald CLA 2012-06-12 17:57:40 EDT 
This patch removes the explicit 'save' command.

http://git.eclipse.org/c/orion/org.eclipse.orion.client.git/commit/?h=savebutton_376739&id=bfdd05e63129c66060d0bf6f02b5d2bb0e5a94fa

Adding Susan for review. Susan, the interval between auto-saves is 8 seconds, does this feel too long to you?