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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: UI Inconsistency OK APPLY buttons
From:       Ladislav Strojil <Ladislav.Strojil () seznam ! cz>
Date:       2003-04-01 21:58:59
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On Tuesday 01 of April 2003 20:30, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> On Monday 31 March 2003 23:56, Ladislav Strojil wrote:
> > On Monday 31 March 2003 23:43, Martin Willers wrote:
> > > Intuitively, I wouldn't expect an "Apply"-button to actually +save+
> > > anything (ie. to file). - It just updates the application's current
> > > running-state. Only the "OK"-button makes this change persistent (ie.
> > > saves to config).
> >
> > Well, I expect the "Apply" button to apply the changes. This usually
> > includes writing them to some file. But it can also mean deleting
> > something, starting some application, rewriting something, you pick.
> > What you describe is really called "Preview" not apply, IMHO.
> >
> > Apply means (and always did) - "do the same thing as OK but do not close
> > this window".
>
> If you have both an ok and apply button, pressing the apply button must
> mean that you havent ok'ed the changes yet, because then you would have
> pressed ok.

I am sorry, I just don't get this. If I pressed OK, the dialog would be 
closed. I cannot press OK and then Apply.

> It's not a matter of consistency. It's just a consequence of having both an
> ok and apply button.

I still don't get it, what you are trying to say.

Never mind, this thread has become silly, I will not go into this all over 
again. :-)

Cheers,
Lada

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