Re: (Was: How to create shapes on the fly?)

[Lennon Day-Reynolds <lennon kestrel edu>]

I've already done some work not too far from these lines -- namely, 
having an object in a diagram "linked" to another diagram, and putting 
an "Open Target..." entry in the object menu. Generalizing it to work 
for groups would also be pretty useful for me, so I'd be happy to start 
work on prototyping it.

One minor HCI quibble I've always had with Dia (having had my experience 
with grpahics tools be mostly on the MacOS and Windows platforms) is 
that the properties view is only available via a double-click, while 
seemingly more natural double-click options such as "view target", etc., 
have to be relegated to the object-specific context menu. Not a 
deal-breaker, certainly, but it does give me (and other people I've 
talked with who were new to Dia) the occasional hiccup.

Lennon Day-Reynolds

Lars Clausen wrote:

> On Fri, 18 May 2001, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
>
>
> > What could be desirable would be a way to edit the properties of a member
> > of a group -- but I don't know how to handle editing the properties of a
> > member of a group, itself a member of a larger group, with a way to do
> > this intuitive enough so it's useful to users.
>
> XFig has the feature when you can 'open' groups.  Then you can only see
> that group and edit the items singly, then later close it.  We might want
> something somewhat similar, but maybe keeping the rest shown, marking open
> groups with dotted lines.  I've also heard requests for remembering groups
> when ungrouping.
>
> -Lars