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

2011/4/19 planas <jslozier@gmail.com>:
> 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.

Agree. Sadly there is not an easy solution for this. A possibility
would be to "merge" buttons (normal click to accept, long click to
apply, or add a "menu" to accept button, so if you click on it you
accept, but with long click a menu opens), but this will only change
clutter with complexity...

> BTW your animation was excellent.

+1 !!

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