Issues & requests - preamble

[dg1727 hushmail com]

Hello, 

In the next few minutes I plan to post several messages, with a 
list of issues and/or requests in each message.  

I do _not_ expect the fixes/features all to be included in Dia in 
the short term.  

I am hoping for some basic discussion along the lines of: 
 1. the fix has already been done in GIT, or 
 2. that feature is already in 0.97.1, and here's how you get to 
it, or 
 3. a Bugzilla entry has already been made for this, or 
 4. a Bugzilla entry can be made from this issue description, or 
 5. more info is needed in order to troubleshoot this, 
 6. etc. 

I do not want to submit a bunch of Bugzilla entries that don't pass 
tests 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 in the above list.  

I am also choosing to bring these up "en masse" because I think 
that bringing up only a few at a time for the sake of "politeness" 
won't really help anything, but might delay the introduction of 
some of the fixes/features into Dia.  Items can be put into 
Bugzilla even if they won't be added right away.  I also do not 
have the time to make a separate mailing-list message for each 
individual item.  

I have tried to focus on items that are well-defined and will make 
a noticeable improvement in the usability of Dia.  

I have omitted issues that I am aware have been discussed on the 
mailing list, even if I agree that they should be addressed.  :-)  

Please bear with any roughness in the issue descriptions.  

For any answers that are #4 above, if I don't get to it in a month 
or two, someone might want to do it for me by using copy/paste, 
especially if the comment is similar to "This can be done in a day 
or two of work, no problem."  

Thanks in advance.