Instant apply and explicit apply in KDE HIG

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Sunday 05 March 2006 13:24, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
>  dialogs which would greatly benefit from instant apply. For example
> setting fonts in KMail is very annoying, because you always have to click
> apply before you can see the effect.

to be fair, i can't even see the area that those font settings affect properly 
with the dialog open (it takes too much space!). a preview area would work 
well in that case IMHO.

> My feeling is that there aren't that 
> much cases, where instant apply wouldn't work.

the problem is that every inconsistency translates to a lack of trust: things 
don't work dependably. imagine if 1 out of every 100 items in the real world 
didn't drop to the ground when you let go of them, but in stead hovered for 5 
seconds and then dropped? it would have a huge impact on how we dealt with 
objects, even ones that did drop "normally"

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Aaron J. Seigo
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