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Bug 81202

Summary:	[Preferences] Preference/property page: Want only 'Apply' but no default
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Martin Aeschlimann <martinae>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Sarika Sinha <sarika.sinha>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, Lars.Vogel, markus.kell.r, Tod_Creasey
Version:	3.0
Target Milestone:	4.5 M5
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	81069, 81180, 121057

Description Martin Aeschlimann

2004-12-15 11:16:34 EST

20041215

There are several pages where 'Use defualt' make no sense, e.g. see bug 81069 or
bug 81180.

It should be possible to only have the 'Apply' button. Currently a page can say
'noDefaultAndApplyButton'

IMO 'Apply should always be there, can't think of a reason why you wouldn't want
that.

Comment 1 Tod Creasey

2004-12-15 14:04:08 EST

The only problem with us always putting apply there is that people are 
expecting it not to be there if they set noDefaultOrApply to true.

Comment 2 Tod Creasey

2007-04-13 16:00:25 EDT

There are no plans to implement this change.

Comment 3 Dani Megert

2014-12-16 08:39:33 EST

We need this to fix bug 121057.

Comment 4 Dani Megert

2014-12-16 08:44:38 EST

Submitted patch
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/attachment.cgi?id=249458
from bug 121057 with http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=2b448c6ccc32375146ebedce110bdc46655b4ba4

Comment 5 Lars Vogel

2015-01-28 10:48:37 EST

I don't think this is fixed, I see several preference pages without "Apply", see for example "Execution Environment". Or is this bug only about the option to activate the Apply button independent from the Default button?

Comment 6 Lars Vogel

2015-01-28 10:48:54 EST

(In reply to Lars Vogel from comment #5)
> I don't think this is fixed, I see several preference pages without "Apply",
> see for example "Execution Environment". Or is this bug only about the
> option to activate the Apply button independent from the Default button?

Tested with 4.5.0.I20150126-2000

Comment 7 Dani Megert

2015-01-28 11:16:04 EST

(In reply to Lars Vogel from comment #5)
> Or is this bug only about the
> option to activate the Apply button independent from the Default button?

Yes.

Comment 8 Dani Megert

2015-01-28 11:16:56 EST

See e.g. 'Installed JREs' preference page.

Comment 9 Wojciech Sudol

2015-01-28 17:31:57 EST

Verified in 4.5 I20150126-2000.