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

Doug,

I prefer to ask first the time responsible for the code. If we as a
team already disagree with a change, it does not make sense to discuss
it in a wider audience.

Also changes im M1 have a long time to get reverted before the release.

Best regards, Lars

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 7:16 PM, 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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>>
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CEO vogella GmbH

Haindaalwisch 17a, 22395 Hamburg
Amtsgericht Hamburg: HRB 127058
Geschäftsführer: Lars Vogel, Jennifer Nerlich de Vogel
USt-IdNr.: DE284122352
Fax (040) 5247 6322, Email: lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx, Web: http://www.vogella.com


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