Re: "move" tool (One more opinion)

[Enrique ArizÃn Benito <earizon unizar es>]

- I don't like the "Hand" name either. It gives place to many subconscient meanings in diferent countries as is usual with other parts of human body ( in some arabian countries showing your hand can mean a big insult !!!). And drawing a good mini hand icon is hard difficult. The only "Hand" advantage, from my point of view, is that of beeing an standard tool in Acrobat Reader, one of the most used software these days.

- The "Scroll" word is too much computer literate (I'm spanish and I had troubles with the scroll word the first time I saw it in a book).

ÂWhat about "Travelling around the diagram" instead of "Scrolling the diagram"?. I think the "Travel" word gives not possible confussion and is extremely intuitive.

ÂAnother suggestion is that of changing the continuous crossing arrows with 4 independent ones. I think it gives more impression of movement. (See the attached diagram).

Hope this help!


Enrique ArizÃn Benito,
ÂSoftware developer and Network administrator

Lars Clausen wrote:

On 9 Sep 2003, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
  

Hi!

After a year of extensive use of Dia I've just discovered that there
is an analog of "Hand" tool! :-)

What I would like to suggest is:

1. Change icon for this instrument (take same one from cursor)
2. Change its name.

I may go in the wrong direction, but wouldn't it be more intuitive?
    

You're talking about the scroll tool (the one whose icon is a four-pointed
star and whose pointer is a grabbing hand)?  I don't know that "Hand" would
be very intuitive -- "Hand" could be understood to be the Modify tool as
well.

-Lars

  

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