Re: [Usability] Instant Apply Windows

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> After all, revert does no good if you don't notice you screwed up
> until after you close the dialog, so it's only going to save you in a
> few cases.

Revert is as much a tool to facilitate experimentation in a GUI (usually
a good thing) as it is to dig you out a hole, however.  Particularly in
dialogs that let you change the physical appearance of things, it's
always good to be able to quickly get back to where you started to try
other alternatives-- not because you necessarily "screwed up", but just
because it provides a common starting point on which to base your
experimentation.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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