Re: More features

[Octavio Alvarez <alvarezp alvarezp ods org>]

On 01/31/2014 09:44 AM, Slavko wrote:
> > > Allowing to hide (enable/disable, not delete) whole shape lists is
>
> > I was thinking about this one as well, but did not come up with a
> > good UI idea. Maybe replace the current approach with some
> > autocompleting, read-only combobox of all the shape names?
>
> IMO current list is good, only when the number of items grows, is there
> a problem. I see the base of the problem in history. There was not a
> custom shapes system (as i know) and users did copy/install them
> manually. But now i install custom shapes package and i get a lot of
> lists, which are not all useful for me. But there are not all useful
> for me from the build-in too. Hmm, i don't know how to write this in
> English, but now i have more items now than they can take place on my
> screen (1920x1080) and i must to scroll it to see all items.

I like the current list too, but I rarely do other diagrams other than
networking of flowchart. I don't have many shapes. To me, an added
"recently-used" list where the last 100 shapes (not lists) are shown
sorted by last time starting by the most recent would be great.

> Yes, they all are not a beginner problems. IMO the beginner problems
> are not related to bad GUI or missing GUI parts. I see only one
> missing part - very basic Quick start tutorial with some screenshots.
> Now i think not for my students - i am able to describe them the
> basic work with Dia. But for people which find the Dia by self and have
> nobody to ask around.

The following link right in the front page would be very very useful:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dia+diagram

Also, not sure if dia --integrated is the default in the Windows
installer (I use Linux), but making it the default would be a great UX
improvement, just by itself.