Re: Rotation in Dia?

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 15:55 -0500, cnelson nycap rr com wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 10:27 -0500, cnelson nycap rr com wrote:
> > > I have to believe I'm just missing something.  I have an object 
> > > in Dia that I want to rotate 90 degrees and I can't find an option
> to do 
> > > that.  I'm using v0.94 so maybe it's been added since then...?
> >
> > No, I'm sorry, there is indeed no rotation in Dia.  It was designed
> > without rotation in mind originally, and I have yet to think 
> > through how to design it in a workable way.
>
> For what it's worth, 90-degree increments would be a huge step forward.

It is not so much a problem of the non-orthogonal rotations, so much as
integrating it with the handles, connection points, parenting, grouping
and autorouting system.

-Lars

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