Re: some quetsions about features and plugins

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

Am 10.06.2008 17:32, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe schrieb:
> 2008/6/10 Marleine Daoud <marleine gmail com>:
>
> \me delurks.
Welcome back ;)

> > I would like to develop a plugin for Dia that would explore diagrams with
> > the help of filtering, highlighting and searching shapes based on certain
> > attributes,
>
> I don't know about others, but I would be very excited to see such a
> feature in Dia. And personally I would like to see it developed as a
> core part of Dia itself ... not just a plugin. 
I don't buy this "not just a plugin", so I'd rather like to improve on the 
things possible from a plug-in instead of being forced to develop every 
prototype in the core.

> There are many uses for  such a system.
>
> 1) The first that comes to mind is changing the properties of some
> objects. Imagine being able to select "all red lines" and then making
> them dotted, for example!
Already possible with a plug-in, namely selec_by.py - but apparently not 
well advertized.

> 2) This would also be useful for improving the properties dialog ...
> in its current state, the dialog becomes mostly useless if you try to
> change the properties of a large number of different objects. The box
> could have buttons that show objects grouped by different criteria,
> and allow the user to change properties for these selected subsets.
As already mentioned I'm not sure I have understood the "filtering ..." 
idea. Didn't it mean selecting objects based on certain criteria, rather 
than selecting attributes of a group of objects?

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