On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 14:06 -0300, bulia byak wrote:
So here's what I propose: replace close/ok/execute buttons with two buttons: Apply and Close (in that order). Remove "pin" checkbox. When live preview is off, make dialog non-modal and allow to change selection at any time; Apply would then just apply to the current selection but not close. When live preview is on, dialog is modal, but you can preview the effect of parameters on the current selection; and when you click Apply it not only applies the effect but _also_ unsets the Live preview, unlocking the dialog to enable new selections.
While I think this could work, it does change the behavior rather significantly from what we have now. I think that with this, live preview should be on by default as people will expect to start working on what they have selected already.
Do the "perception speedups" that I added make enabling preview by default seem reasonable to you?
--Ted