Can you add cancel button when it's possible?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Xan wrote:

> 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.

ok, i'll be honest here.  you seem to have the most random off-the-wall 
ideas out of everyone, and yet you appear to have _no idea_ what goes 
into implementing any of it.  the implementation is _not_ cheap, and 
it's not trivial.  not only that, but it's not expected behavior.  
either you have an instant-apply dialog without a cancel button, or you 
have an ok/cancel/apply-type dialog.  when people see a cancel button, 
you assume that the settings aren't applied immediately.  period.

please, will you try to put more thought into your "suggestions"?  at 
least don't assume that every little option/feature/whatever can be done 
with zero or little cost.  try writing some code, and you'll understand.

	-brian