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Consolidate messages about unsaved changes

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We currently have various ways in which we describe to the user to press the "Save" button. I have always found this messaging rather unfriendly, although the reminder has proven to be effective. Its often incredibly wordy, and gives the impression that it thinks I am stupid in the fact that it is saying to press the Save button.

Before

saving-changes.png

We could easily make this a lot shorter and more consistenct across core. I don't think we really need to hint at the actual submit button. All we have to remind people of, is the fact that they have unsaved changes. So I propose to change it to:

You have unsaved changes.

This would result in a relatively simple message:

After

Screen Shot 2013-04-21 at 9.21.37 PM.png

AttachmentSizeStatusTest resultOperations
saving-changes.png57.31 KBIgnored: Check issue status.NoneNone
Screen Shot 2013-04-21 at 9.21.37 PM.png116.01 KBIgnored: Check issue status.NoneNone
unsaved.changes.patch2.35 KBIdleFAILED: [[SimpleTest]]: [MySQL] 54,764 pass(es), 1 fail(s), and 0 exception(s).View details | Re-test

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