Change OK button on Advanced Preferences to Save button

[Ageless]

When using the Simple View preferences, you go out by either clicking the Save or Cancel button. When using the Advanced View preferences, you go out by clicking either the OK or Cancel button.

People now just look into the Advanced Preferences and without knowing it make them work as they click OK to go out, then later they complain on forums that their preferences on the web site don't work when they change them and update BOINC. We increasingly find that these people are unknowingly using the override preferences, because they looked in once and went out by clicking OK.

So my idea is to standardize the buttons in Simple View and Advanced View, make them both Save and Cancel. Turning them around, so Cancel is first, would perhaps also make a difference. An extra pop-up window in which you have to confirm that you want to use the override preferences, may also do the trick.

[Nicolas]

Agreed.

Make sure translators also write the button label in a way that makes clear it's doing changes.

[Nicolas]

Removed unneeded [[BR]] from description.

[Pepo]

Replying to Ageless:

So my idea is to standardize the buttons in Simple View and Advanced View, make them both Save and Cancel. Turning them around, so Cancel is first, would perhaps also make a difference.

Possibly to the extent that, if turned around, the user could inadvertently click the wrong one, because (s)he is used to the (somehow standardized) [ [Yes] [No] ] order.

[Ageless]

May I re-request this option? It's still not clear to many people who peek in on the Advanced preferences that clicking OK saves those preferences and that BOINC will immediately start using them, overriding their web-preferences. They think they just exit the window by clicking OK.

How difficult is it to use Save instead of OK?

Or else, as interim solution add a good warning at the top. Something like "Clicking OK will save all preferences in this window to a local file, will override any of the same preferences set through the projects and BOINC will start using them immediately. If you do not want to use these local preferences, click Cancel."