Re: Dia's user interface

[Adrien Beau <adrienbeau yahoo com>]

On Tuesday 23 April 2002 12:21, Lars Clausen wrote:
>
> This is not quite true:  If you select a tool from one sheet,
> then change to another, the indication is wrong.

Yet, I think it is obvious the user must be able to know
at any time which tool he is using.

> Actually, I'm thinking if anything, the selected tool should
> be indicated by the pointer.  The non-object tools already do
> this, and we could have a ghostly icon next to the pointer
> when another tool is selected.

Good idea.

> > I usually use this area to report error messages
> > that don't deserve a window popup, which is the case most
> > of the times ("The blabla field is not a number." in red
> > ink in the status bar has proved to be enough).
>
> That's a possibility, though how often does that happen?  And
> if it happens inside a dialog, shouldn't it be shown inside
> the dialog?

Yes of course. What I was suggesting doesn't appear very good
for Dia, so forget about it! :)

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