Re: HIG and Escape

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden schemamania org>]

On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 21:01:01 -0600, Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>
wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, James K. Lowden wrote:
> > I hear tell 0.94 will be partly about HIG compliance.  I noticed (who
>
> You mean 0.92, and yes.

Oh, well, I thought I meant 0.94.  I assumed a pre-release implies
bugfixes only, not UI changes.  

> > In the UI overhaul, I hope Escape will cancel/close dialogs.  
>
> It certainly should.

Cool.  

> We're not bound to a particular style, but we want to keep the coding
> part simple, too.  

Acknowledged.  

> Look in app/preferences.c you'll see an array of prefs.

Right, thanks.  A lot of that information would wind up in the glade file.
 Then it's just a smp to map glade's data structure onto Dia's.  Not very
interesting work, but not hard or inflexible, either.  At least, that's
the view from 30,000 feet.   

> > How do we distinguish between defaults for new diagrams and properties
> > of a particular diagram?  
>
> Properties of a particular diagram are changed from the diagram.

Ah, I see.  If you want to know whence my confusion, try this for
late-night GUI entertainment:  Open File->Preferences->"Diagram Defaults".
 Then, right-click on the diagram and choose View->"Diagram Properties". 
Compare.  

Very often, a user sets a current property and knows then and there that
should be the default for future diagrams.  Example: paper size.  It would
be good to work at this from that direction, making the current-properties
capable of affecting default values, and using the same or similar dialogs
for both purposes.  

How does that strike you?  

Regards, 

--jkl