Re: [Geoserver-devel] New UI: The Persistence of Save (or The Saving of Persist)

2008-08-06 Thread Rob Atkinson
+1 from me too. (and if we can abstract it to allow future use of version control in the background we could one day exploit it to provide a revert function) RA On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Jody Garnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Justin Deoliveira wrote: >> +1. The new configuration backen

Re: [Geoserver-devel] New UI: The Persistence of Save (or The Saving of Persist)

2008-08-06 Thread Jody Garnett
Justin Deoliveira wrote: > +1. The new configuration backend was designed for this paradigm. Trying > to keep feature parity with the old user interface by providing a Save / > Revert is proving to be quite a bit of work. > +1 Explaining the Load / Apply / Save is always one of the highlights

Re: [Geoserver-devel] New UI: The Persistence of Save (or The Saving of Persist)

2008-08-06 Thread Justin Deoliveira
+1. The new configuration backend was designed for this paradigm. Trying to keep feature parity with the old user interface by providing a Save / Revert is proving to be quite a bit of work. -JD Paul Ramsey wrote: > Why not go all the way and dispense with "save" altogether. As soon as > I hit

Re: [Geoserver-devel] New UI: The Persistence of Save (or The Saving of Persist)

2008-08-06 Thread Paul Ramsey
Why not go all the way and dispense with "save" altogether. As soon as I hit "OK" on a property change, it is both applied *and* persisted. I almost find this more intuitive than a situation where I've made changes, but they aren't showing up in my running application until I hit "save". To use yo

Re: [Geoserver-devel] New UI: The Persistence of Save (or The Saving of Persist)

2008-08-05 Thread Rob Atkinson
Perhaps the paradigm we are looking for is more like version control, where incremental changes are made to a body, and when happy with a complete set we tag the set. It would be neat to be able to store and access components of configurations in a version control system or other registry infrstru

Re: [Geoserver-devel] New UI: The Persistence of Save (or The Saving of Persist)

2008-08-05 Thread Andrea Aime
Mike Pumphrey ha scritto: > Would it be possible/desirable to add in a configuration option to > "Auto-Persist?" To me, the Save + Persist model has always seemed like > one save too many, but I do recognize its importance to people. With > "Auto-Persist," any changes made by hitting "Save" in

[Geoserver-devel] New UI: The Persistence of Save (or The Saving of Persist)

2008-08-04 Thread Mike Pumphrey
Would it be possible/desirable to add in a configuration option to "Auto-Persist?" To me, the Save + Persist model has always seemed like one save too many, but I do recognize its importance to people. With "Auto-Persist," any changes made by hitting "Save" in a config page would automaticall