Empathy apply button does not make sense

[Michael Wood]

Binary package hint: empathy

All Empathy's configuration dialogue boxes use "close" to save the settings, as is found throughout the GNOME desktop.

*** Apart from one ***

I see someone has realised most people will close the box to apply and put in a message:

"There are unsaved modifications regarding your xxx account.

You are about to close the window, which will discard
your changes. Are you sure you want to proceed?"

"Cancel or Discard ?!"

What does this even mean ? Cancel the procedure of closing or discard the procedure of closing ?

Then you have the accounts management dialogue, which is very cluttered with buttons and has an apply, cancel and close button.

It breaks all the user's previous understanding of using GNOME, it's unnecessarily confusing and I don't understand why it is needed.

[Michael Wood (x3n)]

filled upstream at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600152

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Upstream bug has been marked as duplicate of bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596986.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

in empathy its more clear as 'login'

[Michael Wood (x3n)]

No this is still not correct.

1) Why do you need a login button on the account editor? that is outside it's purpose as an account editor.
2) "Cancel" is still not warranted

It's quite a textbook example on how to do the UI wrong, especially if you're using GNOME's textbook.