Dia website updates

2011-01-01 Thread dg1727
Hello, The Dia website (http://live.gnome.org/Dia) has been updated in the past few days to reflect the release of Dia 0.97.1 (which happened almost a year ago). Some general cleanup of the Dia website has also been done. I do not have the time to update the website on a continuing basis,

Compiling the current development version of Dia

2011-01-01 Thread dg1727
Hello, About the virtual machine (VM) that Steffen Macke has published at http://dia-installer.de/developer/index.html.en : (Thanks to Steffen for going to the trouble to build this VM and make it available.) I think there are some users of Dia who: * may need to use the current devel

Issues with printing to Ledger (11 x 17-inch) paper

2011-01-01 Thread dg1727
Hello, I look forward to comments about the following issues I'm having. To duplicate the issues: 1. Dia 0.97.1 on Vista SP2. The physical printer referred to is an HP LaserJet 5200 with up-to-date firmware (8.130.2) and up-to- date "Universal Printing PCL 6" driver (5.2.0). 2. Dia s

Issues & requests - preamble

2011-01-01 Thread dg1727
Hello, In the next few minutes I plan to post several messages, with a list of issues and/or requests in each message. I do _not_ expect the fixes/features all to be included in Dia in the short term. I am hoping for some basic discussion along the lines of: 1. the fix has already been

Issues & requests - basic connector/snap/grid issues

2011-01-01 Thread dg1727
Hello, All of the following were noticed on Dia 0.97.1 on Vista SP2. In the following, "connector" means any of the 5 types of line objects in the standard toolbox: line, arc, zigzag line, polyline, Bezierline connection points of any 2 objects should snap to each other without a connecto

Issues & requests - CTRL-mousewheel should move mouse pointer to the zoom origin

2011-01-01 Thread dg1727
Hello, Presently (Dia 0.97.1), CTRL-MousewheelUp (zoom in) moves the diagram with respect to the drawing window, so that the drawing window ends up centered on the diagram point that the mouse pointer was pointing at, but, unexpectedly, the mouse pointer does not move with respect to the draw

Issues & requests - View -> Zoom

2011-01-01 Thread dg1727
Hello, Suggested features: View > Zoom should have an option equivalent to "one printed page." View > Zoom should have "zoom to rubberband rectangle drawn by the mouse." ___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailma

Issues & requests - Line Width

2011-01-01 Thread dg1727
Hello, The following issues/requests are as of Dia 0.97.1: Line Width dialog always uses units of cm, but should follow File > Preferences > User Interface > "Length unit" if possible Line Width dialog should show the unit (e.g., "cm" or "inch") even if the unit is always fixed to cm. Li

Issues & requests - mouse-related UI requests

2011-01-01 Thread dg1727
Hello, All of the following were noticed on Dia 0.97.1 on Vista SP2. mouse pointer should change to arrows (for resizing) when over green square handles of a selected object Mouse-driven resizing, moving, selecting (rubberband) should honor the ESC key moving selected items past edge of wi

Issues & requests - duplicating of objects

2011-01-01 Thread dg1727
Hello, The following are as of Dia 0.97.1: Suggestion: SHIFT-CTRL-D to reduplicate the most recently duplicated object Option for CTRL-D & proposed SHIFT-CTRL-D to put new object @ mouse location. Presently, the X,Y offset from the existing object to the new object seems to be a certain

Issues & requests - automatic modification of shapes

2011-01-01 Thread dg1727
Hello, The following are as of Dia 0.97.1: Could the following be considered: add a default text region automatically to any shape, when the shape is placed onto the diagram, if the shape does not specify a text region? The default text region could be centered below the shape by default.

Issues & requests - fairly minor but noticeable issues

2011-01-01 Thread dg1727
Hello, All of the following were noticed on Dia 0.97.1 on Vista SP2. Summary: issue (& enhancement requests) with closing all open files If all open files are closed (by clicking the X on the tab for each file), the name of one of the files stays in the Dia window titlebar. Issue:

Re: Issues & requests - basic connector/snap/grid issues

2011-01-01 Thread Michael Ross
I don't develop Dia but, from prior comments, I think you should be using Bugzilla for all this stuff. A complex set of requests and discussion are better tracked in Bugzilla. This list list is more for user help and less involved complaints about function. Steffen or someone else may wish to cl