Re: [libreoffice-design] Proposition to combine the Apply/Reset buttons

On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 14:56 +0200, Sparkling Specks wrote: 

> Hi,
> In the upcoming 3.4 release there will be an additional button in
> dialogs, "Apply," to apply changes made in dialogues without closing
> the dialogue. This new button means that now there are five or six
> buttons on the bottom of many properties dialogs, "OK," "Apply,"
> "Cancel," "Reset," ("Default"), "Help."
> In an attempt to cut that number down again, I want to propose
> combining the Apply and Reset buttons. There's a bug about that here:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36112 , an animation to
> show the feature (
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=45456 ) is attached to
> the bug -- please excuse its amateurish execution.
>
> Regards,
> Heinzs.

Heinzs

My only concern is that many users would not carefully read the button
labels and not realize the function has changed.

BTW your animation was excellent.
-- 
Jay Lozier
Jslozier@gmail.com

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