A small annoyance regarding 'paste'

[christian ridderstrom gmail com]

I'd just like to share something I find annyoing with Dia. When I paste 
objects (using Ctrl-v), they appear somewhere up at the top left of my 
diagram. This usually results in me having to move the mouse a long 
distance in order to get the insert object to where it should be. Other 
drawing programs handle this differently, below are some alternatives to 
the current behaviour:

One simple solution is to insert the object at the location of the mouse 
at the time of the 'Ctrl-v'.

Another simple solution is to insert the object at the last location the 
user clicked on the screen.

A more advanced alternative is as follows and is useful/active when a user 
inserts an object, moves it a little bit, insert another object, moves it 
a little bit and then inserts a third object (and more). In this case, Dia 
could measure the distance between the last two inserted objects, and when 
inserting a third object, it is placed at a location that is relative to 
the last inserted object, offset a distance equal to the distance between 
the second last and the last object. (Hope you understand what I'm trying 
to say here...). The whole point of this is that it makes it very quick to 
insert many equidistantly spaced objects.

cheers
/Christian

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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr