Re: Control Center must-fix draft

[Adam Elman <aelman users sourceforge net>]

At 8:13 PM -0700 9/5/01, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> More gratuitous opinions:
>
> On 05Sep2001 07:36PM (-0700), Seth Nickell wrote:
>  > After some discussion, and a re-evaluation of the existing dialogue
>  > proposal, we propose the
>  > control center use "[Help]         [Undo] [Done]". Help is optional, but
>  > of course desirable.
>  > Undo only undoes the last change. Done closes the dialogue. All
>  > preferences should take effect
>  > as soon as the user changes them.
>
> I suggest [Close] instead of [Done]. I also suggest removing [Undo], I
> don't think one level of undo adds much. (Of course, if it's left in,
> the button should be dimmed when there is no active Undo item to limit
> the chance that the user will think the undo chain is unlimited). And
> finally, [Help] should probably go to the help for that particular
> capplet and should only be present when the capplet actually has help
> (I hate pressing help buttons only to find a generic "no help on this"
> page).

Seconds to all of the above.  I actually think that ideally, Undo 
would be left in, but it would have an infinite undo chain back to 
when the preferences dialog was opened.  Otherwise I agree with 
Maciej that it's not all that useful with only one level.

Adam
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