I'm pulling this issue out of the the "'Bare minimum' proposal for CC
Cosmo UI" thread so I may summarize. Here is the thread for your
reference: http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-
November/005665.html
Currently on Cosmo there is a 'Remove' and 'Save' button at the
bottom of the event details. If the user fills out the form and
clicks away, nothing is actually saved until the user selects the
'Save' button.
*Discussions/Proposals*
It has been proposed to add a 'Cancel' button at the bottom to revert
edits and changes back to the way it looked initially. This may be
very useful to the user once the event details grows with stamping/
dashboard form elements.
There is also some confusion with the term 'Cancel' and what it
means. Other terms such as 'Reset' has been proposed.
Adding another button at the bottom of the event details is also an
issue for design and a proposal was suggested as a compromise to
prompt a dialog box if the user clicks away. This will help confirm
if the user wanted to save the changes made or 'Cancel' and revert
back to the original changes on the event details.
There is also the proposal to allow auto save, but there may be
technical issues with that and is really out of scope for Preview. We
will table that discussion until post-Preview.
*Next Steps*
Concerns for having a 'Cancel' button have been addressed, though
there didn't seem to be a strong consensus to work this into the
design just yet. We could move forward with the compromise proposal
(prompting for a dialog box), but that may bring up other usability
issues which have not been addressed in the thread, for example
recurring events.
It seems for now keeping with the current design ('Remove' and 'Save'
buttons) is fine for Preview. We will revisit this issue again when
we receive some more concrete feedback from dog-food users or users
post Preview.
-Priscilla
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