When editing Product variations, there is a button .
But this will not really save. You have to hit 'Save' at the bottom of the whole from too.
There is a similar situation when editing the settings of a field on a 'Manage Display' tab.
There, the Buttons are called 'Update' and 'Cancel', which seems a good distinguish from the actual 'Save' button.
Also, they are not the action-blue, which further visualizes the difference in functionality.
PS:
there's another usability problem around the 'Save variation' Button here:
PPS:
I'd call this rather a bug in usability than a feature request, but i hesitate to set it to bug.
which is more appropriate?
the good...

and the bad!

| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #2 | change_the_save_button_label-1891696-2.patch | 1.25 KB | vasike |
| edit-variation.png | 73.73 KB | sirtet | |
| edit-field.png | 87.96 KB | sirtet |
Comments
Comment #1
jsacksick commentedThis button is provided by Inline Entity Form so move the request to the correct issue queue.
Comment #2
vasikehere is a patch for this
Comment #3
bojanz commentedI like the idea. Cleaned up the patch a bit and committed it.
http://drupalcode.org/project/inline_entity_form.git/commitdiff/5d3de74?...