[josm-dev] "Add nodes" functionality changed?

[David Earl]

On 09/03/2009 16:39, Stefan Breunig wrote:
> Did you not receive all the other mails where I explained that in
> every detail and even gave an equal replacement?

I've just gone back through my mail, and I have nothing with your name 
on it about these changes, unless it is buried in something with an 
unrelated subject heading. They just appeared. I only updated Friday 
after a long period of using an older version in the mid 900s(*).

We've had lots of suggestions over the last couple of years about ways 
to restructure the interaction and modifiers, reduce dependence on modes 
and so on. I think some discussion might have been in order before 
anything fairly fundamental like this was changed.

My feeling is that it should be possible to have a switchable 
interaction style so you can choose your favourite, or we can come to a 
consensus on which works best by developing new ones or variations 
without upsetting the status quo until there is a broad agreement.

Anyway, it's done now. I guess we'll get used to it.

David



(*) by the way, older JOSMs no longer display the message of the day 
apparently, which was partly the point of having them - that people with 
older versions get to know about mandatory and optional changes in later 
versions they don't have, not jsut what's new in the version you *do* 
have. Also it broke my paint colors until I realised I had to remove my 
custom mappaint XML reference from the days when I had a plugin. That 
took ages to track down. That'll teach me to keep up with the cutting edge.