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Re: [platform-ui-dev] Remove the "Apply" button from the preference pages?
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I think you need to ask this question to a wider audience. Removing that
button could cause mass confusion to the millions of Eclipse users used to
having it there. Or maybe not.
Doug.
On 2016-07-12, 1:11 PM, "platform-ui-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of
Lars Vogel" <platform-ui-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of
lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Friends of Platform UI,
>
>Our preference pages have an "Apply" button.
>
>AFAIK the current behavior is:
>
>Apply does trigger preference listeners and leaves the preference dialog
>open
>OK triggers the preference listeners and closes the preference dialog
>
>Personally as an IDE user I get confused by this button. I feel like I
>always need to press "Apply" before pressing OK which is of course not
>true.
>
>I suggest to remove this extra button and only leave OK to apply the
>changes and close the dialog. I don't think the option to apply the
>preference values immediately without leaving the dialog is very
>valuable for our users. The only "real" use case I'm aware of is for
>switching themes to preview the result.
>
>For me this scenario is actually bad, I tend to always press "Apply"
>before "OK" I actually suffer from the costs of switching CSS's twice.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Best regards, Lars
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