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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: UI Inconsistency OK APPLY buttons
From:       Ladislav Strojil <Ladislav.Strojil () seznam ! cz>
Date:       2003-03-31 19:20:03
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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.

Are you sure this is what users expect? For me this seems very confusing 
behaviour. Maybe if you called "Apply" button "Preview" button instead, but 
this way I think it is not right.

Just my 2c.

Láïa

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