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
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
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unsaved.changes.patch | 2.35 KB | Idle | FAILED: [[SimpleTest]]: [MySQL] 54,764 pass(es), 1 fail(s), and 0 exception(s). | View details | Re-test |