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Hmmm, you have some weird thing where you have two possible file locations:
- some location in .local
- the locaiton that yo uspecify each time you press ctrl-s
That complicates things... and is not very standard.
I would think standard is either:
- jump straight to a new empty map, have 'load...' to load some previous map
- 'save' will save to whatever you loaded from, or pop up a 'save as...' dialog if it's new
- (maybe) have a 'recent files' list
Standard is usually good, unless you have a relaly good reason for breaking with standard :-)
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Hi Hugh - the idea with this is that maps are automatically saved to a hidden location, so the user needn't worry about locating them on their filesystem. So when you hit Ctrl-S, that's export rather than save. I agree that that's non-standard, but that's how Labyrinth has been for a long time.
It is also rather unmaintained at the moment - I was the latest person to work on it, but I never felt that there was much of a community around it, so I moved on to other projects. If you want to help improve it, jump right in!
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Haha, our replies crossed :-D
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Ok, so you're saying, you have no opinion on where the project goes? If I strip the opening dialog box, that's ok with you?
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Hmmm, seems sinhac has bee ndoing a bunch of work https://github.com/labyrinth-team/labyrinth/network
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Oh my lordie, sinhac's connections look really bizarroid :-P I shall stick with your version, and my temporary hack, for now :-)
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how sinhac's connections look:
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I do care a bit, I'm afraid. If you strip the opening maps view, anybody who is using Labyrinth and upgrades will lose them. I think a better solution would be to change the keyboard shortcut for export to something else. See for instance Hackpad - when you hit Ctrl-S, a little notification pops up in the corner saying "No worries, it's automatically saved already". In many ways, I think this is a better paradigm than the normal 'remember to save every few seconds!' design of desktop apps, so I would be disappointed if Labyrinth was stripped back to the 'standard' interface.
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Ok, I will leave you to figure out how to handle that. My personal requirements (preferences if you prefer :-) ) are:
- can open the 'exported' file directly, skipping the internal db dialog
- save/export/whatever will then directly save to that filepath, without any additional dialog boxes
I have no preference over whether this is called 'save' or 'export' or whatever, just as long as I have some way of doing these two things :-)
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(or .... eliminate the internal db, and the initial dialog is basically a 'recent files' list, but I think that's not how you want it to work, right?)
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(some additional context: I sav eeverything up to github, so just saving to internal db doesnt do what I want. my workflow looks like this:
- open doc from github repo
- work on it, ctrl-s'ing as I go
- commit to github repo, upload
)
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(actually... along similar lines, it would be good if the save/export saved as plain xml, rather than tarring, way more compatible with saving in git :-) Just my own opinion...)
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Maybe the answer is to support both ways of working - if you open a map from the internal list, it would autosave and have an export option in the menu (as it already does), but if you open a map from an exported file, it would have standard 'save' and 'save as' menu entries.
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Yes, sounds reasonable :-)
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As you can see, I've made my own fork which skips the innitial Browser window, opening a new map if no filepath given, else opens the filepath given. All is in xml, no tarring.
Closing this issue, since I think I've communicated my own opinions on the subject, and now it's really just down to personal preferences :-)
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