jiho wrote:
I would argue however, that I think people can figure out the %n thing if it is explained --in a tooltip or so-- because that's not so complicated after all (and the UI could help f we really want to, with a button that says:"insert unique identifier" or something, in the file chooser dialog). Plus, basing this system on plain text special expression would be much more powerful: after all, if you have %n, you could have %a which generates a letter, %h%m%s which generate current time etc. I think that such power should not be sacrificed for the sole sake of "keeping things simple for the newbie", especially when said functionality is easily hidden from the eyes of said newbie (after all, no one is forced to use %n).
This sounds like a good scheme. The more I think about it, the more I like having a "save incremental copy" or something as a menu item. But I think it should be a simple, automatic thing, like "save" is. So, maybe the way to do this is to have a preferences section which allows one to specify the expression for the incremental save, with options for whatever is possible (plain number, date, geographic location taken from your usb gps dongle). Keeps it both simple and powerful.
JF