Save on save

[Daniel]

On 2020-03-30 17:38, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 04:46:33PM +0200, Daniel wrote:
>> Windows, a star next to the title indicates that there are unsaved changes,
>> on macOS a dot in the close button. LyX already provides those. Couldn't you
>> start looking for those instead?
> 
> Nope, my solution is quite different, I'll just add reversal of this
> change to my private patchset ;)
> 
> But the point of my message was to point out that there is also price
> for the proposed change namely for the use cases where people rely on
> timestamps as its encouranges useless save. Whether we want to pay it
> or no depends on what others will think.
> 
> If I understood correctly this change is being pushed as workaround
> for completely different problem(s), like storing the state of inset.
> Why not rather address the problem itself?

I though, if many other popular applications have Save always enabled, 
then that might not be a bad idea.

The only alternative, I can think of is enabling Save when an inset is 
changed but don't render the document dirty. But that doesn't seem 
completely different only more narrow.

What did you have in mind?

Daniel