On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, R. Lahaye wrote:
> Angus Leeming wrote:
> > The idea behind the buttons in the preferences dialog is
> > "Close/Cancel": self explanatory?
> > "Apply": apply these changes for this session only.
> > "Save": save these changes so that they can be applied
> > next time also.
> > Would you rather press Save and then Close or have the button called
> > Save&Close?
>
> I would then use merely three buttons in this dialog:
> <OK>: apply the preferences to the current document(s)
> (do NOT save them for a next session).
> Close also the preferences dialog.
>
> <Save>: save the the settings to file and *apply* also
> to current document(s); these settings will
> also be used next time LyX is started.
> Do NOT close the dialog.
>
> <Cancel>: close the window without saving or applying anything.
Perhaps you don't understand the Ok,Apply,Cancel model we use on the other
dialogs? I find this proposal of yours confusing.
Apply means set these changes for use now but leave the dialog open so I
can fiddle about some more. We do that already in this dialog. OK is
usually used to make a permanent change and close the dialog. I chose to
rename OK to Save because in this dialog the change doesn't just occur in
memory it is written to disk and will affect future lyx sessions.
Allan. (ARRae)
