Ok. Suggestion: Always give priority to oldests history when re-doing.
If the user does 10 undos and 2 re-dos he'd be at "undo-step" 8. He then does some operation, say, move a shape 1 pixel. He's now at step 1 of a new branch of actions. He presses undo 1 or more times, going back to the original history branching point or even beyond. The newest branch is at this point deleted and if the user presses redo again 8+ times, he'll be back at where he started before undo-ing.
I do not know if this is a good idea but at least it is non-intrusive to the user....
/JimmyVolatile
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Felipe Sanches <felipe.sanches@...155...>wrote:
yeah, but you could accidentaly hit a key and unintentionally destroy work. There is no "undo my mistaken undo-history-edit"...
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Steven M. Ottens <steven@...2586...>wrote:
although I would love some smart multi-level tree-undo structure which remembers at what point in history you deviated and allows you to go back to the branch point and gives you the choice to either follow the 'new' history or the 'old' history *), I've never seen that in practice and everyone who uses multiple undo for a while knows that if you go back in history and change something, you're 'past future' is lost.
So merely giving a warning that changing something once you went back in history will be beneficial for a small number of people, but hugely annoying for the majority. In my opinion you should either produce a nice multi-branch undo history (with very interesting UI- challenges) or leave it as it is. I am aware it is a bit harsh, but IMHO no-one who is doing serious design work with inkscape will be surprised by this behavior, because there is no multi-branch-undo in any (vector)drawing program.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Steven
*) If inkscape would have it, it would be a killer feature, I'd love to help to do the UI-part of it, the programming part has to be done by different minds though
On Jun 12, 2009, at 8:28 PM, Felipe Sanches wrote:
hmmm... cool! but I see an issue there...
if you select a "past revision" and edit it, every future revision (relative to it) is lost. It should either branch the history or warn the user that some work will be definetly lost.
Juca
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:03 PM, john cliff <john.cliff@...155...> wrote: do you mean the undo history? its in SVN under edit>undo history...
2009/6/12 Felipe Sanches <felipe.sanches@...155...>:
Some time back, someone from some university developed an undo
system
for Inkscape. Would that be included in the final release?
Probably not. I havent seen it in our svn repository, so it wont
be in our
release. And it can't be added now in the middle of a release process.
Juca
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