Urgh, do we really need to keep features that a developer may need at some point in the future in the UI? This is something that one person may need once sometime next year. Can't we make this a #define or something instead?
We really shouldn't be cluttering everyone's UI with developer-only options. On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 08:54:05PM +0200, jp charras wrote: > Le 10/05/2016 à 20:41, Chris Pavlina a écrit : > > Back in August (git:aaadb40), I made the undo history infinite in pcbnew, > > eeschema, modedit, and libedit. Wayne wanted this to remain an option, in > > case > > of issues with the memory consumption of the undo stack. Currently, if you > > set > > "Maximum undo items" to zero, you get infinite history. I also made it > > default > > to unlimited. > > > > In the seven months since I did that, has anybody ever needed to limit that? > > I've found the memory consumption caused by it to be quite minimal even on > > very > > long layout sessions (I do not often shut my computer down other than to > > install kernel updates and do not generally close things I'm working on, so > > pcbnew can remain open for weeks at a time...). > > > > And if nobody has needed to change the limit, can I remove it to reduce > > options > > clutter? > > > > Please, do not remove it. > For most of users, this option is not useful. > > However, developers need to be able to set the value (usually at a low value > like 2 or 3) when the > undo/redo has an issue (usually related to object deletion), even in release > mode. > Sometimes a crash can happen when objects in undo/redo list are deleted, if > there is a bug in these > functions. > > -- > Jean-Pierre CHARRAS > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
