[Bf-committers] Re: Regarding the undo function....

[momesana]

An email I received after critisizing the lackness of an undo-function 
in Blender.
Ingie wrote:

>I just wanted to check and see if you knew about the "hidden" menu at the
>top of the main window.  You pull it down, and can choose to save backups of
>your work.  You can choose how often and how many backups, as well as choose
>a location to save them.  This isn't as convenient as an undo, but it'll
>keep a catastrophe from happening.
>
>Good luck!  Love Ingie
>
>
>  
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Hi,
First of all, thanks for your reply and the hints therein. Yes I am 
aware of that hidden-menu. The problem ist that the backupfunction is 
not appropriate for doing undo's because it does make copies of your 
work rather sporadically (regarding to the settings we have applied) and 
does not suite the need for undoing minor changes. I have brought the 
backup-periods to quite a short interval in order to compensate that 
drawback but still it is not a substitute for a proper undo-function. I 
have also encountered the "less serios" Lackness of a further function, 
that also should be implemented as soon as possible. While working with 
other application, you are always asked wheter you won't to save changes 
that have been applied but not yet written to disk, when you try to exit 
the program. Not so Blender. It just terminates indifferently, while 
your precious work is for ever lost!
The reason why I critisize all of this is that blender is seemingly the 
"ONE AND ONLY" Open Source 3d Project capable of competing with the 
propietary ones and therefore can't afford  to ommit these essential 
features. Blender comes with a myriad of sophisticated Features and it 
is complete enough to really replace other software, so all this 
should'nt be tainted by the Lackness of a few, simple, easy to implement 
(... unreliable statement of a novice-programer :) ...) but "ESSENTIAL" 
features.
Nevertheless we should take in consideration that it is only months ago 
that blender went open source and it probably needs more time for more 
programmers to enter the scene, thus increasing the speed of development 
(as  it was the case with the mozilla project).
Despite all that, I hope ton and the other developers will be mercifull 
and implement this features very (very) soon (correct me if I am wrong).

momesana,
momesana@yahoo.de