On 2/3/06, Gustav Broberg wrote:
I have recently uploaded a patch[1] which provides an undo history dialog. It is similar to those found in e.g. GIMP[2] and Photoshop[3] (I don't know if it's in Illustrator, CorelDRAW, etc). To get an idea what it looks like without having to apply the patch, here's a screencast (in flash, sorry ;) showing it in action: http://www.csc.kth.se/~broberg/undo-history.html
Looks very promising. Can't wait to test it :)
First of all, I'm not sure if this is a requested addition to Inkscape -- I can't recall any discussion about it on the list and I didn't find anything in the wiki. Personally, however, I do find it useful (at least occasionally), so I went ahead and implemented it.
Don't know for others, but I discussed it privately with one of developers using Scribus's implementation of actions history as example. If you are interested, have a look at how it's done in Scribus - there are a global history and object's history modes. It means that you can create a rectangle, chnage it somehow, then create an ellipse and change it, then select rectangle, switch to object's history mode and revert changes made to it without affecting the ellipse. It's a very powerful and useful concept.
P.S. Would it be a good idea to have one top menu for showing/hiding all of palettes?
Alexandre