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[ BUILD # : 200909200201 ] [ JDK VERSION : 1.6.* ] After launching NB, I set the toolbar icon size to small and continued working for about 4 hours before my notebook died. Upon repowering and restarting my notebook, I launched NB and all of my settings (fonts, open projects, open files, etc...) remained except for the size of the icons in the toolbar. The settings for toolbar icon sizes needs to save immediately upon closing the toolbar management dialog.
preferred icon size is part of window system settings and it doesn't make much sense to persist the whole window system when such a low key property has changed
If it doesn't make sense to save the setting, then why is the setting there in the first place. It may make sense from a development view to persist a change like this when closing the IDE or at a similar time, but what this says to a user is "Hey, we don't care that you want this flag changed" which translates to more Eclipse users. When the user changes a setting, particularly when the change is done from a dialog, the changes should be persisted when the dialog is closed. When a user had everything set and 4 hours later the settings revert, it just looks like poor quality control.