[Bf-committers] Handling of user data.

[Jacob Merrill]

What about popping up the outliner / orphan data window in quit, and
showing exclamation icon somewhere if there is a orphan

On Mon, May 16, 2022, 9:15 AM Harley Acheson via Bf-committers <
bf-committers at blender.org> wrote:

> I’d love to have someone flesh out this “warning on quit” idea, because I
> can’t imagine it actually
> working in practice.  Mostly because of confusion on what “saving” really
> means. Users should
> rightfully only consider that “saving their data” does exactly that, not
> that some of their data might
> differ and have to be “saved” in different ways.
>
> As its simplest, imagine that you have no unsaved changes in your file (you
> just did a File/Save)
> yet there is orphaned data at the time you select “Quit”.  What exactly
> does the warning say?
> “You have unlinked data that will be lost”?  How do you communicate to the
> user what they should
> do now?  Is there a way to offer to do it for them somehow, or is this
> warning going to just have an
> “Ignore” and “Cancel” button? Text that says “please mark anything you want
> to keep by marking
> the data with ‘fake user’”? That will not help a typical person being
> caught out by this
>
> Now imagine there are both unsaved changes and orphan data at the point of
> “quit”.  We now
> have to warn about unsaved changes that can be “saved” and there are other
> things that should
> be “saved” in a different way before you “save” so that they are actually
> “saved”. So we have a
> button to cancel, one to save the unsaved changes while ignoring orphan
> data, and what else
> is on the dialog?
>
> I'm not sure there is sufficient lipstick that can be put on this pig.
>
> Harley
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