Re: ?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 4 Mar 2003, Zhang Lin-bo wrote:
>I'd like to make two comments about properties editing
>in dia-0.91:
>
>1. Does it make sense to provide to users the ability
>to specify, when editing the properties of a group
>of objects, whether they want the intersection
>of the sets of properties (properties common to
>all objects in the group, which is the current
>behaviour of dia), or the union of all properties?
>I think the latter sometimes is also useful.

The latter would indeed be useful.  However, the sheer number of properties
involved could be overwhelming.  Some clearer organization would be
necessary. 

>2. When changing properties while several objects
>are selected (but not grouped), the changes only
>apply to the first object. Isn't it more reasonable
>to apply changes to all objects selected?
>This way people won't need to group a set of
>objects only for changing some common properties
>of them.

This is a confusing behaviour that will be fixed in 0.92 (Big UI Upgrade
version).

-Lars

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