[PD-dev] Naming of patch when doing a "save as"

Jamie Bullock jamie at jamiebullock.com
Mon Sep 16 13:53:56 CEST 2019



> On 15 Sep 2019, at 18:46, jakob skouborg <syntaxerror60 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> To me the “save as” behaviour in 0.47 and down, seems to be the correct behaviour, as pretty much
> all other apps behaves like that. 
> 
> I did make a video that show it here, if my explanation wasn’t clear:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv3a83yzmJc <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv3a83yzmJc>
> 
> What are your thoughts about this?


I agree! My expected behaviour of a Save as… dialog is to offer <current document name> as an editable file name. This also works also when no document name has been explicitly set because a default such as “Untitled” can be used. Always supplying “Untitled” feels broken to me.

Jamie

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