Re: Remove Element width/height from properties dialog again

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 18:13 +0100, Hans Breuer wrote:
> On 25.02.2006 17:59, Lars Clausen wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 10:04 +0100, Hans Breuer wrote:
> >> As already mentioned in
> >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328200
> >> and
> >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331027
> >> I'd like to get rid of the Element width (and height)
> >> entries in the standard properties dialogs again.
> >> IMHO they are causing more harm than good.
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> > 
> > It is very useful for anyone doing modelling of things with a physical
> > size.  I have had a use for it already.  I know of one problem only they
> > have, namely that if you change the size of the object while the
> > properties dialog is open, it doesn't update.  Do you see any other kind
> > of harm in having them?
> > 
> Yes, please follow the give bug links:
> - the aspect ratio property is not respectzed

In general, limits set by the object are not respected.  This is because
they usually live in the move_handle functions, which are not called
here.  That will be a little tricky to do right.  If I can't come up
with a good solution, I will remove the setters again.

> - the grouped object properties work-around badly breaks cause it is very
>    common to change colors, line widths etc. but much less common to make
>    same size. The latter even does only work if all included objects support
>    arbitrary resizing - which most don't ...

This one is easy to fix -- they can be taking out of the groupable
properties by adding PROP_FLAG_DONT_MERGE

-Lars

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