The trolling is funnier in IRC ;) On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 06:58:58AM +1200, Simon Wells wrote: > or just make it so it always works but is either a command line > option/env variable or manually editing the configuration file > > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 6:56 AM, Chris Pavlina <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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