properties dialog and grouped objects

["Sameer Sahasrabuddhe" <sameerds gmail com>]

Hello,

Although the current work on setting properties for grouped objects is
coming along fine, I bumped into two problems:

1) For some objects (UML class, for example), the properties dialog is
way too big. I found the following bug in bugzilla ...

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333751

But this is not it. This bug talks about a dialog box that retains it
size when opened again for a different object. My problem is that the
dialog box itself is so big in the first place, that I can't reach the
OK and other buttons. The dialog is also not resizable.

2) This problem quickly gets compounded when setting properties of
grouped objects. Since we currently use a union, the list can grow
quickly. Try grouping a simple Line with a UML Class. The resulting
list of properties of list is way too long, even longer than the
properties dialog for only the UML Class, since the latter uses tabs.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60331

Should (1) be submitted as a new bug? I couldn't find a relevant one
in bugzilla.

And (2) implies a need for a lot of reorganisation in properties.
There was some suggestion on the group properties bug regarding this.
I think that will have to be thought out and implemented if group
properties are to be of use other than just for simple groups of
simple objects.

Sameer.
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Research Scholar, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay
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