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

> No. I'm not planning any big pieces of work until the new JDT index is

Makes sense Stefan. The new JDT index feels to me like the biggest
thing we expect for 4.7 together with the new code editor work from
Mickael and Sopot.

Best regards, lars

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 8:13 PM, Stefan Xenos <sxenos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No. I'm not planning any big pieces of work until the new JDT index is
> finished, and that still has a long way to go.
>
> As for small pieces of work, my queue is full for quite some time:
>
> I'm planning to finish fixing Elena's forms patch, finish my SWT inspection
> tool for PDE, and address the performance problems in the workbench's root
> progress monitor.
>
>   - Stefan
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 10:22 AM Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Stefan, I completely agree. Are you planning to work on Bug 497428
>> during the 4.7 release?
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Stefan Xenos <sxenos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > As long as it's a dialog box, I agree with your suggestion. However, if
>> > we
>> > were to implement https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=497428
>> > then
>> > it would make sense to have an apply button since it would be easy and
>> > convenient to leave the preference pages open while doing other things.
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 10:16 AM 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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