Re: [PATCH] Database shapes and start arrow

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 25.04.2012 00:36, Jim Ursetto wrote:
> On Apr 24, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Hans Breuer wrote:
> > This is not the way backward compatibility is handled in Dia. The
> > right behaviour would be to initialize to the previous default without
> > any warning whatsoever.
>
>
> OK.  But I don't see how to set the default value for a missing optional
> property.  It seems to set to the object creation default, which will be
> whatever the current default start arrow is at load time; this is
> obviously wrong.  I need to override this to "no arrow" when loading an
> old file.  Suggestions?
Look at e.g. http://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/commit/?id=aeb71aca
for an example.

Still I'm not convinced that an extra start arrow is an improvement at all.

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