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

On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:56:40 -0700, Sparkling Specks  
<heinzlesspam@googlemail.com> 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."

Yes, please, let's simplify this.

> 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.

I like the mockup at

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/PropertiesButtonLayout

It moves [Help] to the left. It doesn't have anything to do with any
kind of action the user is trying to achieve, and the more the user
learns, the less helpful the button is. So let's move it out of the
way, to the left.

Also, the [Default] button is moved to the organizer. There's where
it should be. It appears that, under that mockup, the user can
remove individual attributes, so a [Default] button, or whatever
is named, could shamelessly clear all attributes.

Also, [Revert], can be removed in favor of making the dialog work with
Undo/Redo.

You can only "cancel" by pressing 'Escape'. If you want to use the mouse,
Undo as many times as needed. I like that.

I would only add an [Apply] button before [Close] and NOT auto-apply
whatever mistake I make on the dialog. It is bad for performance.
It is also not scalable. The longer the document, the longer it will
take for _every_ _single_ _change_.


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