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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: UI Inconsistency OK APPLY buttons
From:       Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde () carewolf ! com>
Date:       2003-04-01 18:30:23
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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.

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

`Allan
 
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