Can you add cancel button when it's possible?

[Xan]

Dijous 17 Juny 2004 00:12, en/na Brian J. Tarricone (<"Brian J. Tarricone" 
<bjt23 at cornell.edu>>) va escriure:

> the settings dialogs use instant-apply, so a cancel setting isn't
> applicable.  it would be rather hard to implement, at any rate.  i see
> no reason to change the current behavior.  most interfaces are moving
> toward the instant-apply model, not away from it.  in fact, i recall
> that the gnome HIG says something to the effect that you should make all
> settings dialogs instant-apply, if possible.

I like instant-apply models. I think that were useful a "revert changes" 
button. Useful overall for dialogs to have many options and changing all 
options to previous state spend a little time (more than click to a cancel 
button ;).

I think that this implementation were cheap: only save the actual settings at 
the begginning and delete them when ok or close button is clicked.

Regards,
Xan.

>
> 	-brian
>
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Xan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Recently I thought that, in some preferences dialog, it's useful to have
> > "ok" and "cancel" button (or maybe "ok", "apply" and "cancel" buttons)
> > rather than only "ok" button.
> >
> > I will try to explain it better I know.  For example, imagine this
> > situation: a (novice) user of xfce4. This user has "variation" wm theme
> > and he/she wants to change it. He/she go to wm theme dialog and try what
> > themes like to him/her. He/she don't like any new theme more than the old
> > theme. So he/she wants their original theme but he/she doesn't know what
> > theme is it. So he/she has to try all themes until he/she finds it.
> >
> > With "cancel" button it's a second.
> >
> > I don't know if I explain it correctly.
> >
> > The same happens in almost all preferences dialogs.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Xan.
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