Suggestions for a shortcut for Save Incremental Version

[Dmitry Kazakov]

Btw, some programs use a reverse way of dealing with revisions. They rotate
the existent files, so the newest version of the file is always
non-postfixed.

Example:

Before:
file.kra      # 05.01.11
file~1.kra  # 04.01.11
file~2.kra  # 03.01.11

After:
file.kra      # 06.01.11
file~1.kra  # 05.01.11
file~2.kra  # 04.01.11
file~3.kra  # 03.01.11

That is just an idea. No insisting on it. I'm not sure about the pros and
cons.


On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:07 PM, JL VT <pentalis at gmail.com> wrote:

> I recently added a new feature to Krita, reachable at the Save
> Incremental Version entry in the File menu.
>
> Operation:
> --When clicked, a file called foo.bar is saved as foo_001.bar.
> --If the file was already called foo_001.bar, it is saved as
> foo_002.bar, and so on.
> --If a file with the new name already exists, a letter is added to the
> incremental version, for example, foo_001a.bar. Incrementations
> preserve this letter, for example the next save incremental will save
> it as foo_002b.bar.
> --If the user manually used an incremental version scheme between 2
> and 4 numbers, for example foo_01.bar or foo_1029.bar, it will be
> respected, saving a foo_02.bar and foo_1030.bar file respectively.
> --The command will never ask the user to confirm to save a file (it is
> meant to save time), and by the principle of least surprise, it will
> also never overwrite an already-existing file.
> --If the algorithm reaches its end searching for alternative names
> (exhausts options going all the way up to a "z" letter, as in
> foo_009z.bar, it will show the user an error asking to save the file
> manually with an adequate name).
>
> The question I have is:
>
> What would be a good default shortcut for this feature?,
>
> since it's a feature meant to save time, it should have a default
> shortcut. But I'm actually completely unfamiliar with the shortcuts we
> use and I think artists have a better idea of what would be good.
>
> I also CC'd Calligra-devel to inform them of the feature and hopefully
> catch a couple suggestions (also, if there's interest to make Save
> Incremental Version Calligra-wide, it's not hard to relocate).
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Dmitry Kazakov
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