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Matthijs ten Kate (igadget) has assigned this bug to you for Simple Scan:

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
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Sep  5 20:33:53 2011
DriverPackageVersions:
 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=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-10-generic root=UUID=24ee2295-58ad-4d06-a4eb-c0c7359e2bb6 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
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.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP1.30:bd01/17/2011:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnASRock:rnH67M-GE:rvr:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.

** Affects: simple-scan
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Simple Scan Development Team (simple-scan-team)
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug apport-lpi oneiric precise running-unity trusty
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Save button doesn't warn before overwriting existing file
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/842076
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