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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: UI Inconsistency OK APPLY buttons
From:       Andras Mantia <amantia () freemail ! hu>
Date:       2003-03-31 19:45:40
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On 2003. March 31., Monday 23:29, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Monday 31 March 2003 20:09, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > On 2003. March 31., Monday 19:03, Willy De la Court wrote:
> > > one addition OK only store changes when something is changed e.g. when
> > > Apply is active When Apply is inactive OK just leave the dialog. This
> > > prevents the dual restart of the panel when you click Apply to activate
> > > the changes and when you click OK just after that it restarts the panel
> > > again which is stupid.
> >
> > Just for the note: and Cancel cancels the changes also in case when Apply
> > was pressed before. So in any case after you pressed Cancel the state of
> > your application/dekstop/whatever should be the same as before the dialog
> > appeared.
>
> No, this is not the case.

Yes, in this case Cancel behaves in a different way => it's confusing. I know 
this is not KDE's fault, and actually it makes sense the current 
implementation, but it's simply not consistent. I just saw in the QT Designer 
manual:
"Click Apply to accept changes to the listbox widget. Click OK to leave the 
dialog once the changes have been accepted. Click Cancel to leave the dialog 
without saving any changes."

I think this is the rule we follow, but the explanation is confusing, since 
you don't know if clicking on Cancel will not save any changes since the 
dialog appeared or since the last time you've pressed Apply. 

I propose to revise this for KDE 4 and try to be consistent about what Cancel 
means. Until that a whatsthis text for Cancel and Apply would also help 
together with some explanation in the KDE help. 

Andras

 

>
> Cheers,
> Waldo

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