Re: tabbed interface

["Patrick Hallinan" <patrick j hallinan gmail com>]

On 5/5/07, Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk> wrote:

On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 01:48 -0500, Patrick Hallinan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have made some progress toward a tabbed interface for dia.  It's
> optional, controlled by a "use integrated ui" option in the
> preferences dialog.  I don't know how to send a patch.  I've attached
> a diff of my changes synch'd to the latest svn checkin.
>
> It's in a half broken state.  Maybe mostly broken.  I think the next
> thing that I'm going to do is to synch the tab label to the diagram
> filename.  I just want to make sure that there is interest in this.
> I'm excited to do this if it is really going to be picked up by the
> project.  I'm also happy to accept criticism/advice for the code.
> BTW: I don't know how else to show the code unless I zip the files
> (which I'd be happy to do).

I've committed your patch to SVN, I think it looks nice.  I think we can
take out the "use menubar" option when this is complete; I think there
is significant overlap between those who use menubar at the top and
those who want the integrated UI.  Getting the zoom box and snap widgets
back would be nice:)

Zoom and snap widgets appear to work.  A lot of things *seem* to be implemented:

+Add popup message "Settings change will take effect after Dia is restarted" to the integrated UI option.
+Add snap tool items to the toolbar.
+Default the file filter for the Open File Dialog to "Supported Formats"
+Force the new diagram to be shown!!!
+Make the toolbar actually do something
+Make the diagram tree show a diagram's tab (when it should).
+Created Missing application menus.
+Make the name of second diagram created be numbered 2 instead of 1.
+Make diagram close button actually close the diagram.
+Add shortcut cntl-w for closing the current tab (free when menu's were added).

Short cuts alt or ctrl-1,2,... for selecting tabs was abandoned because the short cuts already exist for other things.

There is a lot of cleanup and debugging work that needs to be done. 

Pat.

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