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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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