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Bug 600152 - Empathy apply button does not make sense
Empathy apply button does not make sense
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 596986
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Accounts
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-10-30 18:39 UTC by Michael Wood
Modified: 2009-11-02 11:08 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.27/2.28


Description Michael Wood 2009-10-30 18:39:07 UTC 
All Empathy's configuration dialogue boxes use "close" to save the settings, as is found throughout the GNOME desktop.

*** Apart from one ***

I see someone has realised most people will close the box to apply and put in a message:

"There are unsaved modifications regarding your xxx account.

You are about to close the window, which will discard
your changes. Are you sure you want to proceed?"

"Cancel or Discard ?!"

What does this even mean ? Cancel the procedure of closing or discard the procedure of closing ?

Then you have the accounts management dialogue, which is very cluttered with buttons and has an apply, cancel and close button.

It breaks all the user's previous understanding of using GNOME, it's unnecessarily confusing and I don't understand why it is needed.
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-11-02 11:08:50 UTC 
The apply button is there because:
a) we need to know when user finished to change his settings as we need to reconnect the account
b) if the users accidentally changes his conf he can break one of his account.

I agree that the confirmation dialog is unclear; this is bug #596986 so I mark this bug as a dup of it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 596986 ***