Re: property dialogs

["Robert J. Slover" <robert slover Rose-Hulman Edu>]

My preference would be for the button to simply be labeled 'Apply'.  If
I navigate to a second tab before Applying changes, I would get a dialog
along the lines of :

  ============================================
  |             Apply Changes?               |
  ============================================
  | Do you wish to apply changes to X before |
  | going to Y?                              |
  |  _________    _____________    ________  |
  | {  Apply  }  { Don't Apply }  { Cancel } |
  |  ---------    -------------    --------  |
  ============================================                 

This is simple and not a suprise.  You won't leave the user with any
route to becoming confused.  I think this is also fairly standard.  I
know FrameMaker (v3.0 at least) does this in the paragraph designer.

The less button clutter, the better.

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