Re: Some aesthetic suggestions

[Ulf Lamping <ulf lamping web de>]

Alan Horkan wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Aaron Dalton wrote:
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> > Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:49:46 -0700
> > From: Aaron Dalton <aaron daltons ca>
> > Reply-To: discussions about usage and development of dia
> >    <dia-list gnome org>
> > To: dia-list gnome org
> > Subject: Some aesthetic suggestions
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> > Now that I have begun working more with Dia, I am finding I am missing a
> > couple of things:
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> > 1) I would suggest either widening the vertical ruler so it is much more
> > clear what coordinate you are at, or putting the mouse's current x,y
> > position in the status bar somewhere.
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> As Dia is a Vector Graphics appliction I dont tend to think of Pixels very
> often.  I always use the grid for alignment and layout so I didn't notice
> the absense of pixel information.  
Don't think only about pixels. You could also display mm/cm/m/..., so 
you can save the time to convert units when placing something.

I wanted to plan the placement of my furnitures as I'm moving to a new 
flat. The absense of such information was one of the main reasons not 
using dia for this purpose :-(

> I wouldn't want the rulers any chunkier
> than they already are but it seems like it would be a good idea to see
> about adding the cursor position to the status bar (please file an
> enhancement request in bugzilla*).
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> > 2) When an object is selected, certain aggregate information would be
> > nice to have in the status bar; namely length of lines or area of the
> > bounding boxes of objects.
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> If you are a programmer and want to help add such functionality then
> Patches are very welcome.
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That would both be a very valuable thing IMHO.

But sorry, currently very limited time, as I'm moving to a new flat ;-)

Regards, ULFL