2011/4/19 planas <jsloz...@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 14:56 +0200, Sparkling Specks wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> In the upcoming 3.4 release there will be an additional button in
>> dialogs, "Apply," to apply changes made in dialogues without closing
>> the dialogue. This new button means that now there are five or six
>> buttons on the bottom of many properties dialogs, "OK," "Apply,"
>> "Cancel," "Reset," ("Default"), "Help."
>> In an attempt to cut that number down again, I want to propose
>> combining the Apply and Reset buttons. There's a bug about that here:
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36112 , an animation to
>> show the feature (
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=45456 ) is attached to
>> the bug -- please excuse its amateurish execution.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Heinzs.
>>
>
> Heinzs
>
> My only concern is that many users would not carefully read the button
> labels and not realize the function has changed.Agree. Sadly there is not an easy solution for this. A possibility would be to "merge" buttons (normal click to accept, long click to apply, or add a "menu" to accept button, so if you click on it you accept, but with long click a menu opens), but this will only change clutter with complexity... > > BTW your animation was excellent. +1 !! -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
