Re: suggestions for Dia

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 11:58 +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. It would really save a lot of time and effort if
> these defaults could be changed. 

Have you tried double-clicking on the toolbar buttons for these?  That
brings up the defaults dialog for that tool.  There's some shapes that
don't allow everything to be changed, though.

> - 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). This problem i did not encounter on my windows
> system. 

This is fixed in version 0.96, coming out real soon now.

-Lars