"Philippe Debar" <phd### [at] belgacomnet> wrote in message
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>
> "Jonathan Wooldridge" <jwo### [at] attbicom> wrote in message
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> > Clicking on a box that says "Don't ask again" should result in not being
> > asked again. It fails to perform as advertised. So IMHO it is a bug, not
a
> > feature: An old bug, yes, but an old bug is still a bug.
> >
> > Isn't this what testing is all about?
>
> You are not asked again while the program is running. It does perform as
> advertised. There is more than one way to interpret the dialog box's text.
>
> IIRC, it is not a bug, it is a design decision that was discussed at
length
> somewhere and some when in these newsgroups. Gnnnnn ! I began downloading
> all of the 35910 messages in p.general to find the thread... but I just
> calculated this download will complete in around 8 hours, so I'll just
post
> this now. (I am not even sure it was in p.gen...)
>

Hmm...I would suggest that this ought to be more of a user-preference type
of thing than a design decision; similar to hot-key assignments. I know how
easy it is to hard-code hot-keys, vs create dynamic binding so the user can
do their own keystroke layout.

But it could be easy to add an .ini setting along the lines of:
FileSaveStatus=always

and have it default to "ask" for novice users.

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