Re: A matter of principle [Re: HIGification of dialog boxes]

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

> Hmmm. Yes, it's clear to me now that Apply != Try.
>       Apply = OK but don't close
>       Try = let's see *temporarily* what this does, but if I click cancel,
>               that cancels.
> This discussion is starting to be really interesting. How about a really
> heterodox solution: not one, not two, not three, but four! buttons per
> *now modal* property dialog:
>
>       [Cancel] [Revert] [Try] [OK]

That was tried in several Gnome 1.4 applictions and it seems to have gone
away, from which I would infer that it was a bad idea.

> Yep. By for instance, allowing these to go on the undo stack as well ? -<:o)
> (and then someone brings a "undo stack picker dialog" so that one

"Undo History" is what the GIMP and some other applications have, it can
be quite useful.

- Alan