Re: Group resizing isses

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

Am 02.11.2014 um 21:28 schrieb George Georgalis:
> Hi Hans,
>
> I've not had any additional group resize problems. The build from today
> seems just fine too, my patched build script is attached.
Your attachement assume everyone wants to build Dia on Linux to /usr/local 
which for me certainly is not the case. Also it throws away alll the local 
changes, which certainly is not for everyone.
To make patch review more easy please use unified diffs and don't mix that 
with some custom shell code, but ...

> I imagine variable re-size handles could be complex to integrate into
> preferences, but everyone I've shared my handles/connection point size
> increase patch with, has been very receptive. The size of these items does
> have a real useability impact.
[... but] I'm not convinced of the "real usability impact". For testing 
I've now changed the two sizes with my local version, too. Maybe I just 
need some time to get used to these;) Or I'm using Dia with a lower 
resolution than you.

> Bigger connection points can clutter, but I
> just un-enable them in the view menu when I'm not using them. Turns out,
> not much toggle is required for most drawings. (but a kbd-shortcut would be
> handy).
IMO the bigger handles are also cluttering the view. For the connection 
points I've left your background changes alone, because I don't want big 
white squares to disturb the appearance of ususally dark lines.

> So, maybe there is a solution? An easier way to integrate the feature into
> preferences for release versions might be through a toggle vs variable
> option. Would you be open to adding a small, medium, large handle size
> option in preferences?
Currently I dont like the visual change you propose and so I dont even 
think it should be user configurable.

> If so, I would be willing to write some pseudo code to add the option. Interested?
Adding a preference is so easy that pseudo code wont be necessary for me. 
See 
https://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/commit/?id=f9630dab780d947695c048b99fcf1d0678b725e0 
for an example if you want to do it for your version.

Regards,
        Hans

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