Hi!
On 01/04/17 08:38, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote:
Now, metadata editor is a little special as it both shows the data from the
selected images as well as allows editing. For that reason it applies your
entry whenever focus goes away so you don't need to confirm your edit.
And this is quite surprising, let me tell you. I am quite old and geeky
(is there a single word for that?) so I am one of the 5 in the world
that uses focus-follow-mouse [FFM] in my normal desktop (and I had to
develop a Gnome extension to switch to click-to-focus for the buggy
programs that needs it, like all windows programs running under
wine...), so I do not object to most of the thing underlined in this
thread.
But in my opinion one thing is removing text input when mouse go away
(which I find natural, given the above) and another one commit changes.
FFM is useful because while I'm doing thing in a window, I can rapidly
move the mouse to, say, IRC to answer and go back. I expect that from
the mouse (and focus) exit to the re-enter nothing happens. It is a bit
like if I am typing "rm -f *.log" in a xterm, move to another one after
typing the "*", and having the command executed...
On a general way, the state of the undo in DT is, I think, getting
better and better. I would like to see undo or (less optimal)
confirmation on all destructive operations, and I think it will get
there with time. It would be nice to simply have a "timemachine" folder
where the last ten version of the xmp files where stored (they are small
and cheap to store), and I had even tried to check some filesystem doing
that (like the old yore VAX-VMS one...), to no avail. Maybe it is
possible to do this with a LUA script?
Romano
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Romano Giannetti
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