Display indicator in the UI about whether a document is saved, unsaved, or in the process of saving

[cjcenizal]

Changes

We need to surface an indication in each app's UI about whether a document is saved, unsaved, or saving. This makes people aware as to whether the URL is an accurate reflection of the state of the document, and whether or not people will see what they see when they copy/paste the URL to someone else.

Implementation

We have plugins such as Reporting which need to know whether a state is "dirty" or not, i.e. has it been edited but not yet saved (#8148). We could use this existing functionality to update the UI with the correct state.

See #7899 (comment) for thoughts about refactoring this functionality.

[trevan]

Would a little "Modified" text string next to the title work? I'd be up to making the small change to show a modified string or icon next to the title based on the dirty flag.

[cjcenizal]

@trevan I really like that idea. I think we need to wait on #9508 first though, which is reworking the view/editing UX. In fact, we could address this ticket as part of that PR.

[gchaps]

Closing this issue. The design team is doing housekeeping against our attached tags and closing issues without much recent activity. Feel free to reopen if you still have issues or feel this is in error.

Dashboard has view and edit modes.