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

OK, that sounds fair.

BTW, The idea of having an preference editor is interesting (save would be
Apply). I think that could also extend to property editors, especially
Project properties. I highly encourage that direction :).

Doug.

On 2016-07-12, 1:21 PM, "platform-ui-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of
Lars Vogel" <platform-ui-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of
lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>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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