On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:11:49AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Richard Heck wrote: >> Andre Poenitz wrote: >> >>> I admit we haven't discussed it for a few years, mainly because last >>> time we reached consensus that it would be Real Kool(tm) to have but >>> nobody implemented it. >>> >> Did anyone try? > > I played a bit with the drawing side once. Should not be terribly difficult. > >> Were there problems? > > I think the main problem is that people are not prepared to switch to a > new mental model WRT text selection. We also need proper support for > inset merging and splitting. > > Some people want to be able to select part of that inset, and part of > that subsequent inset without having to think in terms of insets entity. > I understand this POV but I disagree with it. For example, a change is a > change, I don't want to half select it together with the next change, > this use case is I think pretty rare; but if I want to undo part of a > deletion for example, that should be possible. This last use case > involves inset splitting which we don't support yet. > Could you believe that we were discussing this very thing in front of a > beer with JMarc and Edwin yesterday?
You are having meetings behind our backs? Andre'
