On 30 Apr 2002 22:27:16 -0500 "Lars Clausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > http://www.SchemaMania.org/dia/noodle/ > > > > As you can see, I was able to reduce the size of the dialog by 3x > > I really like the look of that. The prefs dialog at the moment is an > eyesore (though very easy to extend), and it's difficult to tell what > only goes for new diagrams. Could you take a look at the current > preferences.c and see how much work it would be to use your layout? > Also, how much work will it be to keep it up-to-date when more stuff is > added (apparently, Glade assumes Gnome and there is some work involved > in making the code non-Gnome)? Lars, I had a look at the code. They're different paradigms, but I think it'll be not too bad. That's the height of hubris, you understand, because I've never used Glade and never written a GTK app. (I did read Havoc's book, though.) Basically, the problem is one of mapping Dia's internal preferences structure onto the Glade-generated widget code. prefs_create_dialog becomes very different, because the widgets already exist. With cleverness, I'll be able to load their addresses into the DiaPrefsData structures, and prefs_get_value_from_widget won't change at all. > I don't think the labels should be right-justified. Makes them look > ragged. Agreed. > > 1. The Grid size is square; you can't set X and Y to different scales. > > 1) I don't like. Well, between you and Rob, I bow to your greater experience. If people already use anything other than a 1:1 grid aspect, it must be of some use. They do, right? > What happened to "Recent documents list size" and "Use menu bar", or did > you work off an earlier version than that? I guess you did, since the > whole "Diagram Tree" tab isn't there. I haven't been tracking Dia snapshots; I'm have 0.88.1 on NetBSD. Don't worry; I'll modernize! ;) I'm hoping to build the next release of Dia on my favorite OS, but I have Debian around here somewhere on one of the dual-boot boxes if need be. The point of the Glade exercise was to demonstrate what I thought a decent dialog would look like. Many dialogs in most software are too fussy: they take eight clicks and two guesses to find what you want. Tabs and their vertical brethren a la Netscape can be a blessing or a curse, everything depends on organization and layout. Then I decided to volunteer. You never know, eh? > For that I'd say the window manager > should take care of the size, and the dialog could show at startup if it > was shown when Dia was shut down (like Gimp does with several dialogs). > Don't know about the hidden objects -- it's not obvious what that does. I'm sorry, Lars, I don't follow you. I don't know what size the wm should take care of for "that", or which dialog you mean. Regards, --jkl _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
