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Re: [platform-ui-dev] Remove the "Apply" button from the preference pages?

As long as it's a dialog box, I agree with your suggestion. However, if we were to implement https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=497428 then it would make sense to have an apply button since it would be easy and convenient to leave the preference pages open while doing other things.

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 10:16 AM Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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