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Bug 398884

Summary:	[UX] Inconsistent settings page behaviour to apply changes
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	John Arthorne <john.arthorne>
Component:	Client	Assignee:	Project Inbox <orion.client-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	mamacdon
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description John Arthorne

2013-01-23 09:58:32 EST

There is no consistency in our settings pages in how preferences are applied:

User profile: Click "Update" to apply changes
UI theme, editor theme: Click "Apply" to apply changes
Plugins, Formatting, General, Validation: Changes to effect immediately with no button push

This is maybe a short topic for a future UX call to come up with consistent behaviour here. Personally I find changes taking effect automatically is ok, although a subtle "Changes have been saved" message appearing somewhere would be comforting. Once preferences become really complicated, ability to cancel changes or restore defaults is valuable, but I don't think we're at that stage.

Comment 1 John Arthorne

2015-05-05 14:41:56 EDT

Closing as part of a mass clean up of inactive bugs. Please reopen if this problem still occurs or is relevant to you. For more details see:

https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg03444.html