Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, obennett wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I think that would be a good fix but "Save" rather than "Close" (as
> >>gnome does) would be more appropriate here as it explains to the lay
> >>user exactly what is/has been done.
> >
> >
> > Not really. The reason that GNOME uses 'Close' and not 'Save' or something
> > else, is that it uses instant-apply where possible. So the changes have
> > already been effectuated before closing the window.
> >
> 
> Which means if you made a mistake, you can't just choose cancel (or hit
> ESC), you have to remember what setting you had before, and set it back
> to that. Really bad UI IMHO. Expect users to make mistakes often, and

Yes but it's already the case. You already can't go back.

I know it's not optimal but the current architecture of
edit-urpm-sources and urpmi.* make it difficult to do otherwise.

-- 
Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

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