Moving open files

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> Perhaps a system where the program checks to see that the file still
> exists, and if not, then queries the filesystem to find out what
> happened to it? It would be a pain to implement, I'm sure.

Finding out "what happened to it" is certainly a pain, but knowing that the
file changed or moved is pretty simple.  Most KDE apps - and I would expect
most Gnome apps - manage that much.  So they pop up a dialog that says "the
file has moved or changed, what do you want to do?"  That should be enough
of a clue for all but the most clueless users :-)
-- 
derek