Saving changes

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Wed Jul 2 12:08:17 PDT 2014


On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 10:02:39PM +0300, "Paul-Erik Törrönen" wrote:
> > Or possibly a pop up when the entire tab loses focus since everything
> > shifts down when the Save/Cancel bar is displayed.
> 
> Which frankly speaking is annoying, since if you try to click on a
> specific location on the tab (like the tag-field), then you actually do
> not have the specific item under your pointer since everything has now
> been shifted down. It would make more sense to have the save/cancel appear
> at the bottom of the tab.
> 
> But to return to the original topic. Is there a reason why Subsurface does
> not implement the common undo-feature, ie. each edit (marked by focus lost
> of that particular input) is separately stored in a list which then can be
> traversed backwards?

Yes, that would be neat, but it's an order of magnitude more work because
now you need to figure out a way to track the transactions that you did
and how to undo them.

Yes, more elegant.
Definitely more work than I'm willing to do right now.

/D


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