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

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Mon, 21 May 2001, Lennon Day-Reynolds wrote:

> 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.

The properties dialog is also available as Dialogs->Properties.  I think
it'd be good to get properties off double-click entirely, especially as
the first click of a double click is still used and can cause small
movements.  Maybe properties should be a default entry in the middle-button
menu as well?

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