> Lars Clausen wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Adrien Beau wrote: > > On Sunday 21 April 2002 14:43, Lars Clausen wrote: > >> > >> If there are any, > >> could you point out the worst problems that Dia has in its > >> interface? I'd like to turn some attention to that as we > >> work towards a 1.0 release. > > > > It's a minor problem, but it seems to me that "Diagram modified!" > > is almost always displayed in the status bar. If I understand > > correctly, it is just a file modified indicator. > > > > First error with that: never ever shout at your users. No > > exclamation mark. Personnaly, in the few GUIs I've written, > > I've only used excl. marks in "impossible case" dialogs > > (where assertions would be better, but I don't use Java 1.4 > > yet). Always be calm and nice to your user. Especially when > > there are problems. > > > > Second error with that: it's way too big for its purpose. > > It's distracting to have this status message ever present. > > Why not do what Vim (and others probably) do? Put a * in > > the window title, as in "varicella.dia *", when the file > > is modified, remove it when the file is saved or undo > > operations bring the diagram back to the state that was > > saved (the latter one being not necessarily easy). > > I agree with you on this. I have considered removing the !, > but I never > thought of removing the whole string. Three randomly sampled > GTK programs > (Sodipodi, Gnumeric and Gnucash) don't have any indication of > modification > at all. Gedit has "(modified)" in the window title, whereas > Gimp prepends > a *. I think we should go with the *. Since we warn before closing a > modified diagram anyway, the information is not that important. > > Now's the question: Is there some more relevant information > to put there? > Currently selected tool? Number of objects selected (after a select > operation)? Something?
Current coordinates would be great (even which page you are currently in) - in the currently selected units :-). When dragging, the offset from the original drag point in x,y and distance (sqrt(x^2+y^2)). I know this makes it just like a CAD program, but in many ways Dia is a CAD program - when drawing electrical (etc) diagrams I have no doubt that Dia is a CAD package. Distances are useful for designing shapes that have the same proportions, for drawing simple 'to scale' diagrams, for making drawings look 'nice' because they're in proportion. I also vote for the current grid snap status, maybe even clicking on the value changes it or brings up the dialog to change it. Thanks, Rob. _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
