Well, this task in not yet finished and unfortunately these days I'm very
short of time. Guess we'll need to reconsider the saving mechanism later
somehow. But note that if graphs aren't synchronized together with datamap
conflicts may occur. Just imagine situation when someone removes an entity,
but it still exists in your graph! It may be not so easy to handle all of
them
2009/12/24 Ольга Ткачева <tkachovaolg..mail.com>
> excellent work, but I agree with Andrus.
> for example: yesterday I need only change DbEntity configuration, but I
> accidentally chose tab "graph". It create new graph.xml file,
> but I don't need it, it is really distraction and created commit noise.
> And I think if I will be use graph, my graphs configuration maybe be
> uncomfortable for other users.
> for example: I work only with 6 tables in DB and of course I will be
> placing
> it apart from all, but after update my tables change its places,
> it is really no good.
>
>
>
> 2009/12/3 Andrus Adamchik <andru..bjectstyle.org>
>
> >
> > On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Mike Kienenberger wrote:
> >
> > It doesn't make any sense to have a project-specific piece of
> information
> >> stored in preferences.
> >>
> >
> > And still we do that a lot already. There's a bunch of per-screen Modeler
> > preferences stored per project (and not in user visible XML files). If
> you
> > move to another machine, you lose it.
> >
> > I think the difference here is in a mental view of the graph layout task.
> > To you and Andrey it is a part of the ORM modeling work. To me it is not.
> It
> > is a *local* user preference. Something a single developer would tweak to
> > his or her liking, kind of like arranging icons on a desktop.
> >
> > Let me give you a few examples of why sharing a layout might be bad:
> >
> > * 2 developers on the project want to have different layouts, because
> they
> > work with different parts of the model. So they group entities
> differently.
> >
> > * A single developer rearranges the layout multiple times during the day
> as
> > he goes from one task to another.
> >
> > * 1 developer uses a 13" notebook, another - 31" screen. Developer 1 has
> no
> > choice, but to optimize the layout for his screen.
> >
> > Andrus
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Olga Tkacheva
>
-- Andrey
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