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

Hi Christoph,

On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 23:41 +0200, Christoph Noack wrote: 

> Hi Ricardo!
>
> Am Dienstag, den 19.04.2011, 23:36 +0200 schrieb RGB ES:
> > 2011/4/19 Christoph Noack <christoph@dogmatux.com>:
> > > Let's assume that any change within this dialog applies the changes
> > > immediately (reasonable with regard to today's computational power).
> >
> > Uhmm, there are not-so-difficult cases on which this could not be
> > true. Suppose you have a complex document of a couple of hundreds of
> > pages with several images, tables, embedded objects and so on. You
> > then edit the default paragraph style because you need to change font,
> > but instead of clicking on "Liberation Serif" you accidentally click
> > on "Liliput steps" (common problem if you only have a touchpad), a
> > really wide (and ugly) font: if the change apply immediately then the
> > whole layout will be changed immediately, with all your images and
> > tables jumping to the following pages... writer could be quite slow on
> > complex documents and fixing this wrong click could take even minutes.
> > In fact I don't like at all the "apply immediately" paradigm: it could
> > be quite dangerous.
> > Cheers
>
> > From my point-of-view, that can be easily solved ... if a document
> becomes complex, or if the setting itself might have an unwanted impact,
> then the system might delay the update until the user did not change
> anything for XXX ms. Similar things are done within websites (e.g.
> Google with their Instant Search).
>
> For example, and if I remember correctly, the same has been done for the
> new chart component. The "live view" is updated after 3 seconds ... Do
> you agree?
>
> Good point nevertheless :-) To me this seems to emphasize that some
> reasonable description of the intended behavior is a must before
> reaching out to the development.
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph

Good point about we need to describe what should be done. One idea would
be to have preview window showing the changes before they are accepted.
I tend to prefer delaying the change, if possible, until the user clicks
"OK". But if users are acclimated to a system delay before the changes
are implemented, it might work well if we select the correct delay.
-- 
Jay Lozier
Jslozier@gmail.com

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