Gobby invites me to save changes when nobody made any changes

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@…>]

Gobby 0.4.1, Ubuntu 6.10

If I subscribe to a document on an obby server, then immediately close it again, Gobby asks me if I want to "save changes". This is inappropriate, since neither I nor anyone else has made any changes.

This alert should appear only if I saved a local copy of the document.

[armin]

Gobby does not know whether the copy on your hard disk (if there is any) is up to date, which is why it is asking you. I'm not sure what the correct behaviour would be.

When subscribing to a document, in which cases the document should be marked as modified?

• The document is not known, and it is empty
• The document is not known, and it is non-empty
• The document is known

The third case is rather easy. If we already know the document, we can check whether the copy on the hard disk (if present) matches the one on the server. But I'm not so sure on the first two cases.

[anonymous]

When between subscribing and unsubscribing to a document there aren't any changes made to it in the current/focused instance and no change notifications for it received from the server, the "save changes?" question shouldn't get asked, only a "save document content locally?" question (if it hasn't already been saved locally or, including a warning, if the local copy has changed). I hope to have understood the original reporter's issue correctly and to help you with this.