manual partitioning "Apply Changes" button

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 17:24 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> This button is new in TC3. But appears to be superfluous in that it
> does nothing (yet?), but more importantly I don't understand why it
> would even be needed. Would anyone like to address my confusion?

I'm not the designer, but I think I can see why it's there.

The 'size' field is right there as part of the screen in question, for
instance, it's not a child window or anything. So what should happen
while I'm typing '5000' into that box? Should the screen update to show
a partition of size 5, then a partition of size 50, then a partition of
size 500, then a partition of size 5000? Or should it try and do some
kind of heuristic to figure out when you're done twiddling and put the
change 'live'? (ew). Having an 'apply changes' button seems a necessary
evil.
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