I'm strong considering splitting diagram editing into a "normal" mode and a "text-edit" mode. It will allow for more powerful text editing down the road, use of more shortcuts in normal mode, avoidance of the "Delete destroys the object" in text-edit mode and more. While I have no problem with how to exit text-edit mode (Esc or clicking elsewhere), I have my doubts about what would be best for entering. My ideas so far are
1) Press "Enter" to start editing text. Pro: Frees all other keys for shortcuts. Con: Non-obvious 2) Press any letter key to start editing. Pro: Natural start of writing for many people. Con: Loses some shortcuts, can't start writing with non-letters or composite keys. 3) Press any non-modified key to start editing. Pro: Fully transparent for English-speaking people. Con: Loses a few more shortcuts, can't start writing with more complex input. 4) Press any part of a character to start editing. Pro: Transparent for everyone. Con: Loses a lot of shortcuts, including many alt and some ctrl-shift ones. I'm favoring 3 over 2, even though it'd rule out using '1' for zoom 100%. I think 4 would be confusing and hard to code. But is 1 too non-intuitive? Are there better ways? What do other programs get away with? -Lars _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
