Re: [platform-ui-dev] Remove the "Apply" button from the preferencepages

["David M Williams" <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

When do the preferences get saved to disk?
I've always assumed it was during "apply" so if someone were
changing preference on several pages, as they changed each page, best to
hit 'apply', since later may "mess up on a page" and hit cancel
so all those that were "applied" would still be saved. (I am
not sure all pages follow this behavior, though, but, I thought that "save
to disk" was the idea behind "apply" -- perhaps mistakenly?
So, seriously "just ask'in". 




From:      
 Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 "Eclipse Platform
UI component developers list." <platform-ui-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date:      
 07/12/2016 01:15 PM
Subject:    
   [platform-ui-dev]
Remove the "Apply" button from the preference      
 pages?
Sent by:    
   platform-ui-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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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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