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

On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 21:11 +0200, RGB ES wrote: 

> 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 !!


I do not know if users would realize that different click lengths would
do different things. It is not what most users expect. Unfortunately the
simplest way for most users would be to use another button, dimming it
when it is not a valid option. I am not sure how easy it would to code a
button to do 2 different tasks.
-- 
Jay Lozier
Jslozier@gmail.com

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