Re: [Tracker] [patch] bug 503376 - Cannot disable evolution "Enable Evolution email Indexing" in "Emails" tab

[Mathieu Dimanche <mdimanche free fr>]

Michael Biebl a écrit :
> 2008/1/21, Halton Huo <Halton Huo sun com>:
>   
> > On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 10:48 +0800, Halton Huo wrote:
> >     
> > > > [2]. tracker-preferences will send out the key changes D-BUS message
> > > > when user click the widget, that will cause trackerd get the change
> > > >         
> > > and
> > >       
> > > > take effect directly. I'd like to change t-p to send out the changes
> > > > only after use click "Close" button. What do you think?
> > > >         
> > Patch for this is ready. Please review it also.
> >
> > The basic idea is to have a GSList to store all the changes instead of
> > sending out D-Bus messages directly. After user click "Close" button, go
> >     
>
> The problem is, that this doesn't follow GNOME's instant-apply idea.
>   
I'm not really sure the preferences dialog follows the instant-apply scheme.

As seen in the Gnome HIG v2.0 [1], my guess is this particuliar dialog 
should be an "explicit apply window" :
[...]
If most of the controls in your window are not suitable for instant 
apply, consider making the whole window "explicit apply". An explicit 
apply window has these three buttons in its button box, plus an optional 
Help button: Apply/Cancel/OK
[...]


Mathieu

[1] http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/windows-utility.html


> It would also be counter intuitive, to apply the settings with
> "Close". "Ok" would be much better imho.
> Atm it's not very consistent unfortunately. Some settings are applied
> instantly, some only on close.
>
> Michael
>
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