Gnome's Dialogues

[John]

Matthew East wrote:


>>Actually I really like the 'instant apply' functionality, I think 
>>'apply' buttons everywhere would be unhandy.
> 
> 
> Apply buttons are annoying when they don't close the dialogue. A button
> which has the effect of "Save and exit" (like dialogue 1 in my example)
> is a much clearer. I would strongly argue that the best solution is for
> all dialogues to be like dialogue 1, i.e. "Cancel", "Save".

I _always_ expect the Apply button to apply the changes to date and 
_not_ close the dialogue. That's what "close" is form.

This behaviour predates Gnome and KDE by quite a lot.

A problem with instant apply arises when the information needs to be 
provided over several pages. I've had a problem with Windows recently 
that is similar to this. There's a short cut on the desktop to "z:\" and 
the share to z: isn't active. The properties dialogue has several pages, 
but I can only view the one mentioning Z:\ because it's invalid and the 
sanity checking won't let me select any other page until it's fixed, 
even though I changed nothing.