Save button doesn't warn before overwriting existing file
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Simple Scan |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Simple Scan Development Team |
Bug Description
Usability bug: In a typical serial scanning workflow, one tends to scan a document, click on the 'Save' icon, navigate to the location where the document should be stored, enter the name of the document and finally click on the 'Save' button. So far so good.
After that, one typically moves on to the next document, which typically needs to be saved to a different file.
Currently however, when scanning a second document, it is displayed next to the first. Other than that, there is no indication whatsoever that Simple Scan will overwrite the previously saved document as soon as the user clicks the 'Save' icon.
So the user will typically remove the first page(s) which he/se presumes are safely stored in a file and hit 'Save' again...
Moreover, if the user isn't paying close attention, he/she could run into the situation that numerous scans have been made and presumably saved, only for the user to find out that only the *last* scan was actually saved and all previous scans were overwritten.
I've run into this 'bug' numerous times and so have other people in my environment who have been using the application in this manner.
IMHO there are numerous ways to 'fix' this:
1. Always warn before overwriting an existing document. In an application as simple as Simple Scan, I cannot imagine why anyone would want to have the 'Save' icon/button working the way it does now when scanning multiple documents.
2. Clearly show which saved document the user is currently working on (e.g. display the file name in the menu bar).
3. Find a way to make absolutely clear to the user (at the first use of the application?), that the workflow for serialized scanning of documents is using a 'CTRL+N' (for new document) after EACH scan.
A combination of the above would of course also be a solution.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: simple-scan 3.1.5-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Sep 5 20:33:53 2011
DriverPackageVe
libsane 1.0.22-2ubuntu1
libsane-extras N/A
hplip 3.11.7-0ubuntu5
hpoj N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110803.1)
MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: simple-scan
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-01 (3 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 01/17/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: P1.30
dmi.board.name: H67M-GE
dmi.board.vendor: ASRock
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
Related branches
Changed in simple-scan: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in simple-scan: | |
status: | In Progress → Triaged |
assignee: | Michael Nagel (nailor) → nobody |
tags: |
added: precise trustyrunning-unity removed: running-unity |
tags: |
added: running-unity trusty removed: trustyrunning-unity |
Changed in simple-scan: | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in simple-scan: | |
assignee: | nobody → Simple Scan Development Team (simple-scan-team) |
Changed in simple-scan: | |
milestone: | none → 3.25.1 |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
this will not be fixed in the packaging of the application