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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: UI Inconsistency OK APPLY buttons
From:       Amilcar do Carmo Lucas <amilcar () ida ! ing ! tu-bs ! de>
Date:       2003-04-01 8:23:46
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I agree with Andras on this one. It may be a bit hard to implement. But 
Interface wise makes sense, sometimes all you want/need is a preview.
And if you're happy them you can use the OK to save or the cancel 
,...... to cancel.

Amilcar



Andras Mantia wrote:

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>On 2003. April 01., Tuesday 00:30, Ladislav Strojil wrote:
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>>I don't think this wise.
>>Just accept that "Apply" saves the settings.
>>OK saves and exits.
>>Cancel exits without saving.
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>>If you save and then exit without saving, you should not expect to have old
>>settings restored.
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>>No application I have seen behaves the way you mention.
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>As I said, I accept the current meaning of Apply, but I think it would be 
>better and more consistent (KDE wise, not with other GUIs) to have Preview 
>instead of Apply. I don't want to fight for this at all, but sometimes I got 
>confused with the current Apply behavior. It's not KDE's fault, but the ones 
>who first introduced this in the GUIs. KDE may show some innovation in this 
>case.
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>Andras
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>Quanta Plus developer - http://quanta.sourceforge.net
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