76480 - there should be an Apply button in preference dialog

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 42339

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[atomic]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010323
BuildID:    2001032319

No Apply button in Preferences.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open the Preferences contol in Mozilla
2.Use [OK] and [Cancel] buttons but no [Apply] button.


Actual Results:  You must click [Cancel] in order to close the window.

Expected Results:  Windows users expect to see and OK button which applies the
settings and closes, a Cancel button which discards the changes and closes, and
an Apply button which applies the changes but leaves the window open. 

I realize that this ok/cancel behavior is normal for some Linux computers, it is
decidedly abnormal to windows computers.  This could confuse many users.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

over to interface design.

Comment 2

[ratman]

i would suggest upgrading to normal and to all platforms, at the very least with
regards to smoketesting/bugchecking purposes regarding common preference
problems.  an "apply" button that would apply prefernces without closing the
window would help better identify pref panel crashes/freezes.

Comment 3

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

So you want an `Apply' button just to help QA people, at the expense of the 
large majority of non-QA people who will inevitably get confused about the 
distinction between `Apply' and `OK'? Fantastic.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 42339 ***

Comment 4

[timeless]

vrfy dupe