Question about the style guide

[Peter Simonsson]

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On Wednesday 25 February 2004 04:03, Datschge wrote:
> > David Faure and I was discussing kword's and kivio's configure dialogs
> > and a question came up that we both are a bit unsure about.
> > In a tabed dialog should the apply button only apply the current tab or
> > the whole dialog? What's best usability wise? The same applies to the
> > default button...
>
> At the moment it's the de facto rule that Apply and OK always apply all
> changes in the whole dialog. The only exception I'm aware of is the Control
> Center where the user gets notified that changes were done and whether he
> wants to apply or discard them. The latter strikes me as not really
> intuitive since it's possibly hindering the workflow, so the former is imo
> preferable.
>
> In the long run a new standardized widget features could be introduced
> which mark tabs or fields which has been changed with a disk icon like it's
> already done with window/taskbar titles or something like that, but I'd
> suggest that Apply and OK should keep confirming all changes done in all
> cases since this behavior, if kept consistent in all applications, is the
> one with the least surprise.
>
Ok so apply should apply the complete dialog... but what about the default 
button? Should it set the complete dialog to it's defaults too or just the 
current tab?
To me it would be best to only set the defaults in the current tab... but I'm 
no expert so... :)
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LLaP
Peter Simonsson

Kivio - http://www.koffice.org/kivio/
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