TextDocument doesn't handle "visible history"

[nikolausWest]

It's currently possible to set visible history for Text components that are shown in a TextDocument view, but nothing changes in the view when you do. A reasonable solution would be to either disable the option and have a separate view type that aggregates multiple Text instances, or to just append the strings returned by visual history.

How to reproduce

import rerun as rr

rr.init("rerun_example_text_stream", spawn=True)

rr.log("text_stream", rr.TextDocument("The start of "))
rr.log("text_stream", rr.TextDocument("a longer "))
rr.log("text_stream", rr.TextDocument("sentence that "))
rr.log("text_stream", rr.TextDocument("ends with."))

[abey79]

The plan is to add this at the space view level (instead of datagroups/entities like in 2d/3d space views).

[nikolausWest]

The plan is to add this at the space view level (instead of datagroups/entities like in 2d/3d space views).

Were is this plan written down? I'm sure there is a good reason but it does seem like it would be nice to do it in the same way for all things

[abey79]

Here: #4044

It was a post-stand-up decision.