Re: apply ?

["Dan Kaminsky" <effugas best com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Vogt <tom@lemuria.org>
To: gnome-gui-list@gnome.org <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Date: Sunday, August 02, 1998 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: apply ?


>Dan Kaminsky <effugas@best.com> wrote:
>> >OK      -       does what we expect: make changes and exit window
>> >
>> >Cancel  -       should cancel ALL changes done since the window was
opened
>> >
>> >Preview -       apply changes, but changes will be undone by hitting
cancel
>[... plus sometimes  "apply" ...]
>
>> Why not just have cancel return to the state before the dialog was
opened,
>ehm - that's exactly what I'm proposing. :)
>
>> and add an undo button(with control-z keyboardability) that becomes
ungreyed
>> if you hit apply?
>
>undo button would be a good idea. the only thing that bothers me with that
>is that we're at 5 buttons than which might just be a bit too much.


Then something like this...


[OK] [Cancel] [Apply]

and above apply...

[<-][UNDO][->]

>
>not sure about multiple undos. if, they should be c3 or lower, never
>required, unless provided by a gnome-lib.


Probably impossible to apply by lib.