Why not go all the way and dispense with "save" altogether. As soon as I hit "OK" on a property change, it is both applied *and* persisted. I almost find this more intuitive than a situation where I've made changes, but they aren't showing up in my running application until I hit "save". To use your desktop analogy, I can see my changes "running" in the application the moment I make them.
Perhaps the correct behavior is "OK" implies "Apply" and "Save" simply persists. What you see is what you are running. P. On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Mike Pumphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would it be possible/desirable to add in a configuration option to > "Auto-Persist?" To me, the Save + Persist model has always seemed like > one save too many, but I do recognize its importance to people. With > "Auto-Persist," any changes made by hitting "Save" in a config page > would automatically persist. (As long as I'm dreaming, when this > feature would be activated, instead of the Persist button, there would > be a text field saving "Auto-Persist enabled," kind of like how Google > Docs tell you that your doc is already saved.) > > Analogy: > > Pretend you were editing a text document (or sound file, or whatever). > Imagine if hitting "Save" would save the file, but when you closed and > reopened the program, the file became unchanged, unless you had > additionally hit "Persist". I recognize this is a desktop metaphor, and > so not a perfect analogy, but I'm sure there more people than just me > out there who gets tripped up by this in GeoServer. > > Thanks, > Mike > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
