Re: Moving away from app-centric mimetypes (e.g. kword)

On Sunday 19 May 2002 13:13, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Sven Niedner schrieb:
> > Another useful thing would be storing the history of a file:  you write
> > a letter to X using a template. Another day, you load it, modify it,
> > and save it under a different name. This letter should remember its
> > parent(s), and the initial template. Meta data should be inherited,
> > too.
>
> I know this is a common behaviour.
>
> But... what if there were an option to "open as copy"? Would people use
> it, when they were about to use an existing document as template for a
> new?
>
> IMHO it is totally wrong/unsecure to edit an existing document which is
> intended to be the start of another one. I have often seen people who
> accidentally clicked on "save" instead of "save as..." loosing the old
> document's content.
>
> I agree on the other hand that a "save as..." might have it's advantages
> if one decides in the middle of the editing the actual document should
> become a new one in parralel to the original one.

All of that is fixed by including revision control in the file system as 
previously suggested.

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