[Digikam-devel] "Apply" button in right side bar

[Rainer Krienke]

Am Montag, 22. Januar 2007 09:40 schrieb Gerhard Kulzer:
>
> I just read an article about useability; it seems that 5 user opinions are
> enough to get sufficiently precise feedback.
>
> Ok I try to be a normal user:
> The 'apply' button is disturbing if you haven't followed the historical
> development. I think the best solution is to apply changes straight away as
> Marcel suggest. Maybe after each keystroke is a bit busy but update every
> second should be fine.
>

Ok, perhaps I am number 5 :-)  
I think an apply button makes sense especially because useability. Not having 
an apply button I always asked myself when are the changes really applied. 
What if I add another tag to an photo and then immedeately close digikam. 
Will the changes be applied? I was unsure. 

Not having an apply button simlpy leaves the user in the dark not knowing what 
will happen when.  Thats why I would vote for an apply button like solution 
b) in the last posting suggested. Next I would offer the user an option so he 
can switch over to auto apply telling the user when exactly changes are 
applied. In this case the user knows what happens since he himself made the 
decision. 

Perhaps one could add a checkbox near the apply button to 
enable/disable  "autoapply" graying out the apply button when checked. 
Tooltips could inform the user what exactly this means.  The checkbox could 
of course also be put into the option setup dialog instead of the tag dialog.

Have a nice day
Rainer 
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