> -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Amos [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 31 March 2009 12:09 > To: Gregory Williams > Cc: josm-dev > Subject: Re: [josm-dev] restrict mass-editing? > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Gregory Williams > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [email protected] [mailto:josm-dev- > >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Bennett > >> Sent: 31 March 2009 11:46 > >> To: Frederik Ramm > >> Cc: josm-dev > >> Subject: Re: [josm-dev] restrict mass-editing? > >> > >> Frederik Ramm wrote: > >> > currently it is possible to "select all" and then set a tag for > tens > >> > of thousands of objects at the same time. Do you think we should > do > >> an > >> > alert box saying "you are editing 12.345 objects. are you sure you > >> want > >> > this?" - or maybe just disallow it altogether? > >> > >> Or remove "Select All" completely? Are there any legitimate uses for > >> this? I've only ever used it to find out how much of an area I've > >> contributed :) > > > > That wouldn't really prevent a Select All though. It's easy to just > > craft an appropriate search to achieve the same effect, or simply use > > the selection tool to draw a box around everything. > > indeed. i don't think frederik was suggesting that features are > removed, just warn the user that they might have selected more objects > than they thought. > > i think its a good idea. if the limit is settable in expert > preferences then so much the better. it helps protect inexperienced > users and doesn't get in the way of advanced users.
Yes, I'm for having a warning with a configurable threshold. It'd be great to have a warning if you attempt to move a similarly large number of objects in unison as well, but I'm not quite sure how that'd operate since a pop up window would take the focus away from the drag operation that's in progress. Gregory _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
