Re: Requests

["Lars Clausen" <lars raeder dk>]

James Blevins said:
> Please forgive me if I should be posting this elsewhere.
>
> I have been playing around lately with Dia 0.96 for Windows, and my first
> impression is WOW. To all the developers out there, I tip my hat to you. I
> find Dia very easy to use and rather intuitive. I'm excited about the
> tabbed
> interface mentioned on this list. That would make an already great product
> even more awesome.

Thank you.

> Speaking of making fabulous software even better, I have a few requests.
> First, I can't find a way to change the default unit of measure from
> centimeters to inches. If it's not included, would you please consider
> adding it? If it's already a feature, would you please make it more
> obvious
> how to do it (or just smack me for being too stupid to figure it out)?

It's a feature under addition for the next version.

> Second, I may have found a bug. When I set my Diagram Defaults in
> Preferences, I chose Letter and leave Portrait unchecked (IOW Landscape).
> Whenever I create a new document, it opens as A4 and Portrait. Is there
> something else I need to do?

That does sound like a bug.  Could you report it at bugzilla.gnome.org?

> Finally, I love the fact that Dia will display diagrams that span across
> multiple pages. There are, however, cases where it would be more
> convenient
> for the display to only show a single page at a time. Would you please
> consider adding this feature?

The easiest way to do this is to set Page Setup to do Fit To 1x1.

-Lars