[Dev] Undo and commit()

[Reid Ellis]

On Tue Jan 3 2006, at 17:57, Alec Flett wrote:
> John Anderson wrote:
>> In practice I don't think this is a big deal -- that fact that  
>> window size don't participate in undo in other applicaitons is  
>> simply a side effect of the mechanism they use to implement undo.  
>> If the window size did participate in undo, I don't think anybody  
>> would really mind -- the situation almost never happens -- and  
>> technically you could argue it's more correct. So my vote is not  
>> to waste any code implementing it -- at least not until it becomes  
>> clear that it's a real problem.
>
> Obviously we're just getting down to personal opinions on these  
> issues, but I just have to say it would drive me BONKERS if I did  
> this in thunderbird
> 1) deleted a message
> 2) maximized the window
> 3) hit "undo"
>
> and the window shrunk back to where it was before, and my message  
> is undeleted. Clearly that's not what I (as a user) meant by "undo"
>
> Alec

+1