Re: suggestions for Dia

["loli" <loli unsa edu ar>]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:58:46 +0100, Johannes van Staveren wrote
> Hello People who made Dia,
> First of all i would like to say i really enjoy working with dia 
> because of its simpleness and open source background. There are some 
> things which i find really unhandy tho. I am now talking about the 
> linux version of Dia
> 0.95. - I cant seem to change the default settings for some things 
> like the lining, text color and background of the shapes. This is 
> really unhandy when i am using the same non-default layout different 
> times over and over again. - The same goes for the text outlining. 
> It is default set to left-top but center is way easier since i 
> mostly apply the text to the center of my Box / Ellipse. 

(I`m just a user) You can change deffault settings of shapes: you have to  
double click on the icon corresponding to the one  you want to change: (the 
icon on the main menu); next times you load that  shape  it will have the
new settings. 
Each shape has its own properties; and for example Ellipse does not admit a 
test in my Dia.  
May be the Connector shape (from FlowChart) is better for yow: it looks as 
an ellipse and admits a text, centered by default.



It would 
> really save a lot of time and effort if these defaults could be changed.
> - The final thing which i am really surprised about is that some of the
> short cuts for using the things from the menu (file, edit, etc) are 
> the same as the shortcuts for shapes and lines. (ie. Alt+E = Ellipse 
> = Edit). 

I don't know how to click Alt +E  to get an ellipse.  It's not announced in
Dia 0.95.1 but it announced in Dia 0.96-pre3.

This problem i did not encounter on my windows system.
> 
> I would greatly appreciate it if these changes could be made to the next
> version of Dia. or if there were just an update.
> 
> -- 
> met Happy greetings Johannes


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Loli 
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