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

[Stefan Breunig]

> 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(*).

Nah, I meant the mail I wrote earlier today to this thread (the one with ESC).

> 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.

You're welcome to send patches, but it's a lot of work for little
gain. It's always the case that when you change something some people
don't like the change and start complaining which is normally good
because you can find alternatives. In my opinion this discussion goes
nowhere here so far, other than "I want it like it was" (or adding a
control mechanism to switch this).

The offending bug https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/383 has been
open for 16 month before I started thinking about how to implement
this. I posted my suggestion about a week before posting the patch.
You showed that you do care, so why not take it a bit further and add
suggestions to new bugs on how to implement them?

> Anyway, it's done now. I guess we'll get used to it.
I am confident of that :). But hey, if you have better ideas of how to
improve things, just open tickets.

> (*) 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.

Normally JOSM only displays the messages up to its version. But I
remember there has been a change to that rather recently, maybe it
broke it for older builds…

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