Re: Comments on dialog proposal

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 06Sep2001 01:27PM (+0100), Michael Rogers wrote:
> colin z robertson wrote:
> > The Apply button in a dialog
> > serves two purposes: Applying the changes, and allowing the user to
> > delay applying the changes until they want to.
> 
> ..which can also be important if two or more settings are related (for
> example foreground and background colour; 

This one's bogus to me. What's wrong with changing one at a time?
Treble and bass controls on a stereo are related, but no one needs or
wants an apply button there.

> or POP server name, user name and password).
 
In this case it doesn't really matter until you try to get mail, but
it could be handled similarly to the way I described for filtering
rules in my recent reply to Colin.

 - Maciej