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

+1 for what Sergey said and -1 for the proposal.

Dani



From:        Sergey Prigogin <eclipse.sprigogin@xxxxxxxxx>
To:        "Eclipse Platform UI component developers list." <platform-ui-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:        12.07.2016 19:25
Subject:        Re: [platform-ui-dev] Remove the "Apply" button from the preference        pages?
Sent by:        platform-ui-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx




The Apply button is valuable when making changes in many preference pages without closing the dialog. I tend to forget what changes I made in previous pages. To make sure that I accidentally don't cancel them later, I click Apply while I still have the changes in front of my eyes.

-sergey

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Lars Vogel <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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