Bug 97279 - Section 'Undo' vanished from the Options dialog
Summary: Section 'Undo' vanished from the Options dialog
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
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5.1.0.2 rc
Hardware: All All
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Reported: 2016-01-20 14:29 UTC by Wolfgang Jäger
Modified: 2016-01-27 07:23 UTC (History)
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Description Wolfgang Jäger 2016-01-20 14:29:08 UTC 
Version: 5.1.0.2 (x64)
Build ID: ecd3574d51754b043f865cf5bafee286d24db7cc
CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Windows 6.29; UI Render: default; 
Locale: de-DE (de_DE)
(no OpenGL option selected)

The dialog opened via 'Tools' > 'Options' > 'LibreOffice' > 'Memory'
does no longer contain a section 'Undo'. Thus I am not able to change the maximum number of steps with this rc.
Comment 1 Maxim Monastirsky 2016-01-20 14:39:45 UTC 
The UI for this was removed intentionally in 0b0fb87fbac36ef9fbf3dfeac0f1372617f4b3e4. You can still set the value you want using the Expert Configuration dialog.
Comment 2 Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) 2016-01-20 15:00:20 UTC 
@Mihaly Palenik: As you removed those options, would you mind adding a note to the release notes about that? 
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.1

Thanks
Comment 3 Wolfgang Jäger 2016-01-20 15:07:44 UTC 
"...was removed intentionally..."
Who on earth decided to do so? I want to plead for an openly accessible UI option to set a parameter for the scope (number of steps / memory usage) of 'Undo'?
Comment 4 Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) 2016-01-20 15:10:08 UTC 
(In reply to Wolfgang Jäger from comment #3)
> "...was removed intentionally..."
> Who on earth decided to do so?

Please read the commit message for rationale.
Comment 5 Wolfgang Jäger 2016-01-20 19:49:15 UTC 
(In reply to Samuel Mehrbrodt from comment #4)
> 
> Please read the commit message for rationale.

You surely can help me to find it.
Comment 6 Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) 2016-01-21 06:26:50 UTC 
(In reply to Wolfgang Jäger from comment #5)
> You surely can help me to find it.

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=0b0fb87fbac36ef9fbf3dfeac0f1372617f4b3e4 has a reference to a wiki article which contains an analysis of options which are not necessary to have in the UI, because they are too advanced. All of them are available in expert config though.
Comment 7 Wolfgang Jäger 2016-01-21 14:25:16 UTC 
(In reply to Samuel Mehrbrodt from comment #6)
> (In reply to Wolfgang Jäger from comment #5)
> > You surely can help me to find it.
> 
Thank you for the link. 
I could not find a rationale, however. The option 'Memory/Undo/Number of Undo Steps' simply is listed as one of some "unnecessary global options". No way for me to find out for what reason it was judged to be "unnecessary" or "too advanced". 
I do not really like to frequently tamper with the 'Expert Configuration'. 
Ok. I will keep silent with this respect now.
Comment 8 Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) 2016-01-27 07:23:42 UTC 
(In reply to Wolfgang Jäger from comment #7)
> I could not find a rationale, however. The option 'Memory/Undo/Number of
> Undo Steps' simply is listed as one of some "unnecessary global options". No
> way for me to find out for what reason it was judged to be "unnecessary" or
> "too advanced". 
> I do not really like to frequently tamper with the 'Expert Configuration'. 
> Ok. I will keep silent with this respect now.

What's the use case of modifying that property?