I still have not found a decent diagram drawing software for GNU/Linux with the user interface I want. Dia appears to have the features, but I do not like the user interface. So I would like to contribute to Dia: design and implement an alternative user interface. Ideally this alternative user interface and the normal one could be toggled.
My idea for the diagram editing software user interface is also based on context sensitive menus, but slightly different from Dia and Gimp. The basic idea is the move current context sensitive menus elsewhere, and move the shape palette into the context sensitive RMB menu. This would speed up the initial creation of the diagram. I strongly dislike the need to drag shapes from palette. For example, when I right click on empty space on diagram, I want to get context sensitive palette of shapes, directly, not in any submenu, and nothing else than that palette. When I right click on handle, I want to get palette of suitable connectors. Left click would still be select, left drag for move etc. I actually don't like the middle button, because it is too stiff on my mouse at work, and I have none at home.. I would also like to have simpler == faster ways to delete and duplicate shapes. My vision goes along shift-drag from existing shape == duplicate with interactive placing, shift-click/drag from empty space on diagram == paste with interactive, control-click == cut. I have not checked much of the Dia mailing list archives, so I do not know if these ideas are already being planned or not. Anyway I really want these. I have good C/C++ experience, but little gtk/gnome experience. Thoughts? -- Timo Suoranta -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
