Re: An alternative proposal for instant-apply vs. non-instant-apply

[Adam Elman <aelman users sourceforge net>]

At 4:47 AM +1000 9/7/01, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Adam Elman">
>
> >  2) Object property dialogs which have immediate visual effects (say, a
> >  style editor in a GNOME word processor or an object properties dialog in
> >  GIMP or Dia) should be instant-apply.
>
> Just to be clear: I fully agree with this.
>
> >  They should not have any buttons controlling the window: instead, the user
> >  should simply use the standard WM close box or a "close window" menu
> >  option to close the dialog, and the standard Undo command to undo actions
>
> Why is this?

I've gone back and forth on this a couple of times, but I think this 
is correct for object property dialogs.

Basically, you don't need "Cancel" or "OK" or anything like that, 
since the dialog is instant-apply.  If it applies to a document, you 
don't need an "Undo" button either since that functionality should 
already be available from the document.  So the only button you might 
need is "Close".  And that's redundant with the close button that the 
WM provides (or at least should provide).

Adam
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