Re: Any new comments on the non-uniform scaling patch?

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 09:39 +0100, Marcel Toele wrote:
> 2007/12/4, Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>:
>         
>
> Actually, it's not a bug in the SVG path code. The bottom-left
> sub-shape
> does not have an outline, it consists of fill-only. But, as I have
> stated 
> previously, the default  value for "filling dia objects" has been
> changed
> from true to false. This means that from now on, no shape will be
> filled 
> by default. As I also said before: this may be a big problem, because 
> many (if not all) custom shapes depend on this attribute to default to
> true (if they are to appear according to their icon).

Yes, that's definitely an issue.  Could you make a bug report on it?

> I'll look into it and will come back  to you on the default_scale
> issue, which
> as you states, perhaps should be fixed outside the scope of
> sub-shapes, 
> or in combination with a default shape size of other shapes.
>
> Can you point me to the bugreport you are referring to.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451006

>         Am I right to think that there is no such thing as a
>         sub-sub-shape?
>         When I try, the sub-sub-shape appears, but not different from
>         when it's 
>         a sub-shape.
>
> Theoretically it should be possible to have sub-sub-shapes and
> recurse 
> to infinity, however, I have intentionally opted not to do this, as
> this will
> be very confusing to end-users. It will also create a big
> user-interaction 
> problem: "How to resize the sub-sub-shapes or the sub-[sub]*-shapes?"

I agree there are some ... interesting UI problems there.

-Lars