Re: How to consistently handle custom shapes line_width?

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

[ccing the list again]
Am 25.07.2008 18:41, loli schrieb:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:50:28 +0200, Hans Breuer wrote
> > Am 24.07.2008 07:26, loli schrieb:
> > > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:01:04 +0200, Hans Breuer wrote
> > [...]
[...]
> > Yes, the initial "border_width" is indeed taken from the line width 
> > control in the toolbox. But I did not notice yet it is double-
> > clickable as well ;-) I've always choosen my defaults from the 
> > predefined 0 .. 0.2 with a single click on one of the lines.
> I have just realized that border width affects custom shapes. (Thank you for
> yor explanations). So, I like your expressed idea in your previous e-mail .
Unfortunately that idea has issues itself, e.g. a bunch of shape files 
(maybe ~200) probably need adaption to the new definition. And that may 
change the visual appearance of old diagrams depending on which line width 
was choosen for them.

> But may be it would be better that both those dialogs had same items.  (I don'
> know whether this is very difficult to program)
For the common cases it would be easy to implement (just changing some 
PROP_FLAG_NO_DEFAULTS/PROP_FLAG_STANDARD), but to me the resulting 
behaviour does not look desirable. Currently the "standard" properties are 
not listed/modified in/by the defaults dialog.
If they would the controls on the toolbox would become unused for every 
object with defaults set by the dialog.

> The special controls on the tool bos would still be useful for Predetermined
> properties of Standard Objects  and to provide defaults for not choosen proprties
There is no differentiation on the objects level, i.e. the standard objects 
(STandard - Line, * - Box, ...) are not handled differently from the other 
objects (e.g. UML - *).
It is standard properties (line width, line color, background color) we are 
talking about.

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