Undo/Redo
Posted: 19 Oct 2009 16:36
Couple of things I noticed :
- I find it quite "odd" that we can't do nothing from the Action log. I would expect to be able to undo/redo "full power" from there... In the changelog you mention something about doing it from the AL, but how? Am I missing something here?
- I like the single/cumul/non-seq option (which I'd like to see on the Action log to be used from there, i.e. not affecting the TB setting -- that was the "full power" from above ) and I think it would be great to have something such as: holding Ctrl/Shift while clicking an item from the menu means Cumulative/Non-Seq.
So, when one just clicks, it does whatever the option it set to, but holding one key allows to do one operation in cumul (or non-seq) mode without the need to change the option, do it, and don't forget to set the option back! (For instance, I'd love to be in non-seq mode, but to only have one key to do a cumulative undo once in a while without the need to set/unset/reset the option)
- I find it quite annoying that the popup menu from the TB button is limited : undo or redo only. Means One needs to have two buttons to be able to do both This is actually really a PITA since we can't do nothing from the Action Log, once that will be changed I guess you can forget about this...
- I'd like it much better if the dates were put first on the menu/action log, and not last. Might help that I actually use a datestamp (and not the age) but I find it much easier to read that way.
- Cumulative undo: Having the list of actions about to be (un)done on the confirmation popup might be nice
- Undoing a rename operation that only changed the case (e.g. foobar to FOOBAR) fails ("rename target exists") yet the operation goes into "UNDONE" on the action log. I don't think it should be the case when the operation failed, and of course such rename shouldn't fail but change the case back.
- File|Settings: I see no "Save Action Log", and it seems that saving all settings does not affect action.dat either -- Is that normal?
- File|File Special|Swap Names isn't logged/can't be undone
- I know you mentioned it, but undo a "New Folder" action doesn't check that said folder it still empty. I think it might be a good idea to check/add a warning if not empty, since then we're not so much undoing creating an empty folder as we're removing other files/folders... (Same could be said for a new file).
- I find it quite "odd" that we can't do nothing from the Action log. I would expect to be able to undo/redo "full power" from there... In the changelog you mention something about doing it from the AL, but how? Am I missing something here?
- I like the single/cumul/non-seq option (which I'd like to see on the Action log to be used from there, i.e. not affecting the TB setting -- that was the "full power" from above ) and I think it would be great to have something such as: holding Ctrl/Shift while clicking an item from the menu means Cumulative/Non-Seq.
So, when one just clicks, it does whatever the option it set to, but holding one key allows to do one operation in cumul (or non-seq) mode without the need to change the option, do it, and don't forget to set the option back! (For instance, I'd love to be in non-seq mode, but to only have one key to do a cumulative undo once in a while without the need to set/unset/reset the option)
- I find it quite annoying that the popup menu from the TB button is limited : undo or redo only. Means One needs to have two buttons to be able to do both This is actually really a PITA since we can't do nothing from the Action Log, once that will be changed I guess you can forget about this...
- I'd like it much better if the dates were put first on the menu/action log, and not last. Might help that I actually use a datestamp (and not the age) but I find it much easier to read that way.
- Cumulative undo: Having the list of actions about to be (un)done on the confirmation popup might be nice
- Undoing a rename operation that only changed the case (e.g. foobar to FOOBAR) fails ("rename target exists") yet the operation goes into "UNDONE" on the action log. I don't think it should be the case when the operation failed, and of course such rename shouldn't fail but change the case back.
- File|Settings: I see no "Save Action Log", and it seems that saving all settings does not affect action.dat either -- Is that normal?
- File|File Special|Swap Names isn't logged/can't be undone
- I know you mentioned it, but undo a "New Folder" action doesn't check that said folder it still empty. I think it might be a good idea to check/add a warning if not empty, since then we're not so much undoing creating an empty folder as we're removing other files/folders... (Same could be said for a new file).