Re: [Gegl-developer] Journal for changes to a GEGL graph

[Jasper van de Gronde <th v d gronde hccnet nl>]

On 08-06-12 23:43, Jon Nordby wrote:
> ...
> For instance adding a layer in GIMP may result in 5, 10 or even more
> changes to the GEGL graph. Grouping these into one transaction then
> allows GIMP to treat them as one logical change.
> ...
> > Which cool things do you think of?
>
> - Sharing the undo/redo history across applications using GEGL
> - Allowing the undo/redo history to be saved together with a document.
> When you open an old file, you have all the history of it, since it
> started existing.
> - Working on the same document from two different applications at the same time.
> - Preserving non-linear histories
> - Browsing through the entire timeline of a document

This would imply that the GEGL "model" would have to be translatable
(ideally one-on-one) to the document model. Or where you just referring
to the case when people are actually editing GEGL graphs, rather than
some other image format?