On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:58:46 +0100, Johannes van Staveren wrote > Hello People who made Dia, > First of all i would like to say i really enjoy working with dia > because of its simpleness and open source background. There are some > things which i find really unhandy tho. I am now talking about the > linux version of Dia > 0.95. - I cant seem to change the default settings for some things > like the lining, text color and background of the shapes. This is > really unhandy when i am using the same non-default layout different > times over and over again. - The same goes for the text outlining. > It is default set to left-top but center is way easier since i > mostly apply the text to the center of my Box / Ellipse.
(I`m just a user) You can change deffault settings of shapes: you have to double click on the icon corresponding to the one you want to change: (the icon on the main menu); next times you load that shape it will have the new settings. Each shape has its own properties; and for example Ellipse does not admit a test in my Dia. May be the Connector shape (from FlowChart) is better for yow: it looks as an ellipse and admits a text, centered by default. It would > really save a lot of time and effort if these defaults could be changed. > - The final thing which i am really surprised about is that some of the > short cuts for using the things from the menu (file, edit, etc) are > the same as the shortcuts for shapes and lines. (ie. Alt+E = Ellipse > = Edit). I don't know how to click Alt +E to get an ellipse. It's not announced in Dia 0.95.1 but it announced in Dia 0.96-pre3. This problem i did not encounter on my windows system. > > I would greatly appreciate it if these changes could be made to the next > version of Dia. or if there were just an update. > > -- > met Happy greetings Johannes -- Loli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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