[Gimp-developer] Procedural call to undo?

[Jon Senior]

On Tue, 12 May 2009 07:27:51 -0700
Bill Skaggs <weskaggs at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have some doubts myself about the value of undo in scripts.  The case is much
> stronger for plug-ins -- there are lots of them where you could get a cleaner
> usage path by allowing users to try something and then undo it within the
> plug-in, instead of having to undo in gimp and then run the plug-in over again
> for every variation.  And because they both use the same PDB, plug-ins and
> scripts go together:  having access to undo within one means having
> it in the other.

Would it not be better in that case to have a preview which could operate on the entire image (as per Curves etc) than to add a step to the process of evaluation... I speak here as a user, it just seems to make more sense to me.

-- 
Jon Senior <jon at restlesslemon.co.uk>