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

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Everyone, thanks for the feedback.

The result: -1 for the removal it is.

Thanks, Lars

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 8:14 PM, Dirk Fauth <dirk.fauth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There are also preferences that need to be applied in order to make further
> settings work. For example adding JDKs and reference them afterwards as
> execution environment. Without apply it is necessary to close the dialog and
> open it again. Unless these kind of dependencies are not solved also a -1
> from my side.
>
> Am 12.07.2016 19:57 schrieb "Daniel Megert" <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> +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?
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>
> 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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