Re: "Undo" button in capplets

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 13:21 +0200, Denis Washington wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have noticed that some capplets have "Revert" or "Reset to Defaults" 
> buttons for certain settings. How about building a more general way of 
> this functionality into all capplets? My idea would be to add an "Undo" 
> button next to the "Close" button of each capplet (or "Finish", but 
> that's another debate... ;). This button would then revert the last 
> single change a user made. That way, the user could undo a few changes 
> without automatically losing all changes he or she made since starting 
> the capplet. The undo history would best start with the start of the 
> capplet, so undoing as much as possible would be the same as "Revert".
> 
> Comments?

We've been over this a few times before; trouble is we can never agree
what to do :/

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95110

Cheeri,
Calum.

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