Re: How many use the diagram tree?
- From: Russell Shaw <rjshaw iprimus com au>
- To: dia-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: How many use the diagram tree?
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 01:37:18 +1000
Lars Clausen wrote:
On 10 Aug 2003, James K. Lowden wrote:
<rant> One thing I've never understood is Visio's facination with
handles. Why? Any 14-year-old knows a line consists of an infinite set
of points. What's the purpose of picking out some few as more
significant than the rest? Why isn't every point on the line a handle?
Draw a line, drag it to another line. Of course they connect. What in
world else would anyone want? But, no, isn't it much more fun, more like
a video game, to play "Hit the Handle" and see it go from red to green or
whatever? Why do real work when you could be improving your eye-hand
coördination? </rant>
Nice rant:) I've toyed with the nothing of altering the handle system to
at least allow a 'drop line into object' style. It would indeed be nice if
you could attach anywhere. The only reason I see for the handles is to
have a way to attach 'prettily', i.e. exactly in the middle or exactly at
the corner. What's ERwin do there?
Removing handles would require better feedback of hitting objects. A
'highlight' function with sensible defaults would help for that and a
number of other feedbacks.
Hi,
Are those little handle boxes done with a standard GTK function,
or by code specifically in DIA?
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