On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:42 PM, RGB ES <rgb.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/4/20 Sparkling Specks <heinzless...@googlemail.com>: >> Okay, to counter some of the criticism: the rule against buttons >> changing their role seems to play less of a role, today, see for >> instance Rhythmbox's current Play/Pause button. > > Play/pause on same button have an history: a stereo I got on late '80s > had such "setup" so it is quite easy to understand on a music player, > but other function may not be well together. To some extend, play and > pause are in the same game but apply and revert are completely > opposite and can confuse people to bound them together.
I don't think the Reset (-vert) and Apply functions are so different as you think but yes, this behaviour isn't really expected in such a dialogue -- as opposed to Rhythmbox's most prominent button's behaviour. >> Of the other ideas, the one I think would probably work best, is the >> one by Christoph (Help | Close, Reset, [Standard]) -- but I think it >> could alienate Windows users who are not used to the concept of >> applications automatically applying different settings as you enter >> them. > > It would alienate KDE users too... in fact, I do not like when > settings apply without my explicit consent ;) Point taken. Although as a Gnome user I really like things done the Gnome way. Oh, and sorry for inadvertently opening a new thread. Regards, heinzs. -- 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
