[Dev] Undo and commit()

[Grant Baillie]

On Jan 3, 2006, at 11:22, John Anderson wrote:

>> Scenario 2: A user manipulates the UI after making an undoable change
>> A user makes an undoable change, and then clicks on another  
>> collection. Thanks to CPIA, changes in the UI are also changes in  
>> the repository. This means that "Undo" operation might actually  
>> just cause the user to switch back to their preview collection. It  
>> would take a 2nd Undo operation to actually "undo" the original  
>> change.
>
> I'm not sure I understand this, but if you mean that undo moves the  
> user interface back to exactly what it was when you did the last  
> commit, yes that's the way it works and this is what you expect --  
> undo should get you back to exactly where you were, view included.

Hmm... Following this to its logical conclusion, don't we end up  
having to support undoing things that aren't traditionally undoable,  
like resizing or moving windows?

--Grant