Re: Dia's user interface

[Adrien Beau <adrienbeau yahoo com>]

On Tuesday 23 April 2002 10:11, Lars Clausen wrote:
>
> I agree with you on this.  I have considered removing the !,

I've read the Interface Hall of Shame, as pointed to by
Alan Horkan (http://www.iarchitect.com/shame.htm), and
this is one of the things you can learn on this big page.

> (...)
>
> whereas Gimp prepends a *.  I think we should go with the *.
> Since we warn before closing a modified diagram anyway, the
> information is not that important.

I've also seen the '*' used in Windows programs. It's a sort
of "minor standard".

> Now's the question:  Is there some more relevant information
> to put there? Currently selected tool?  Number of objects
> selected (after a select operation)?  Something?

The currently selected tool is indicated in the toolbox, so
there no point in duplicating the information. I don't know
if anybody is interested in the number of objects selected;
I'm not. I usually use this area to report error messages
that don't deserve a window popup, which is the case most
of the times ("The blabla field is not a number." in red
ink in the status bar has proved to be enough).

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