modification date tracking

[Warren Young]

On Jan 21, 2006, at 6:50 AM, Sean Ahern wrote:

>> Naturally...the file does need to be saved at that point.
>
> Does it?  I would say that there's a bit of a subjective judgement  
> here.  I know that there are some applications that only say the  
> document needs to be saved (or claim that it's been changed) if the  
> actual content changes.  That is, if the view is changed or  
> selections are moved to different places, the document is  
> considered unmodified.

Okay, let me clarify: if we say that we want OO to remember these  
things, then they have to be saved _somewhere_.

You can argue that OO shouldn't remember these things from one run to  
the next, but I'm sure they didn't add these features for no reason.   
You'll be fighting against someone else's wishlist if you take that  
tack.

You could also argue that these changes could be saved elsewhere, but  
then if you move the file, it's likely the program won't be smart  
enough to associate the saved preferences with the new file.  That's  
suboptimal.