Re: (Was: How to create shapes on the fly?)

[Lennon Day-Reynolds <lennon kestrel edu>]

I whole-heartedly second that idea; having default entries in the object 
menu makes sense. It should only require a pretty minor change to 
disp_callbacks.c -- basically, regardless of whether the object-supplied 
menu is null, you send it to 'create_object_menu', where the object type 
is added as the title, and object-provided items are proxied, and the 
properties view (along with any other default entries) is appended.

I would also vote for clipboard operations being included there, but I 
suppose starting with just one or two items is a more moderate change.

Lennon Day-Reynolds

Lars Clausen wrote:

> On Mon, 21 May 2001, Lennon Day-Reynolds wrote:
> 
> 
>>One minor HCI quibble I've always had with Dia (having had my
>>experience with grpahics tools be mostly on the MacOS and Windows
>>platforms) is that the properties view is only available via a
>>double-click, while seemingly more natural double-click options such
>>as "view target", etc., have to be relegated to the object-specific
>>context menu. Not a deal-breaker, certainly, but it does give me (and
>>other people I've talked with who were new to Dia) the occasional
>>hiccup.
>>
> 
> The properties dialog is also available as Dialogs->Properties.  I think
> it'd be good to get properties off double-click entirely, especially as
> the first click of a double click is still used and can cause small
> movements.  Maybe properties should be a default entry in the middle-button
> menu as well?
> 
>