[josm-dev] Do we need some principles for JOSM interface design?

Shaun McDonald shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk
Sun Oct 14 17:34:00 BST 2007


On 14 Oct 2007, at 17:16, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> One problem with undo is that the selection is lost. This probably
>> won't be as much of a problem anymore, as I was mainly finding it an
>> issue when waying segments.
>
> It may still be an issue when you're creating a way - you will
> normally want to connect to the last selected node.
>
> Storing the full selection for each step of the undo history would be
> too expensive, memory-wise, but a kludge like "if selection consists
> of only one node, store it and include it in undo" might be workable.
>
Major selection changes should be included in the undo.
Minor changes should be grouped together or ignored.

On another workflow issue, I find that being unable to upload gps  
traces from within JOSM is a significant missing feature breaking  
workflow.

Shaun

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