Re: visible area should be wider

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Dolores Alia de Saravia wrote:
> 
> On june 8. Tino Schwarze <tino.schwarze@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> 
> wrote
>  
> 
>> Hi there,
>> I'm currently using CVS head and noticed a little annoyance: The 
> visible
>> (scrollable) area of the diagram is always a bit too small for me.
>> 
>> That is, the diagram seems to end at the bounding box of all 
> objects. It
>> would be more appropiate to have some free space all around - like 
> half
>> the diagram size (or window size) into each direction. The reason is
>> simple: It is non-intuitive how to "get" more free space. One has to
>> move an object outside or start a selection.
>> 
>> Has anybody filed a bug report on this issue yet? If not, I'll do so.
>> 
> 
> May be it is not a bug.  If you open  file -  preferences -diagram 
> defaults   you can choose the size of the initial window (may be you 
> "have chosen"  500 x 400 pixels-without knowing it) you can get a 
> bigger one if you wants)

No, I would say it's a bug.  When you scroll the diagram with objects using
the scrollbars, for instance, it goes exactly out to the edge of the
objects (sometimes not even that far, which is definitely a bug).  Having a
little extra space around would be nice, but it's a minor thing.

-Lars

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