Re: Re: How many use the diagram tree?

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 ashalper@cox.net wrote:

> > On 8 Aug 2003, ashalper@cox.net wrote:
> > >> While preparing to integrate the parenting code with the diagram tree
> > >> (making it an actually tree), I ran across a rather obvious bug in using
> > >> the diagram tree with groups and undo.  Curious that nobody has
> > >> mentioned this bug, I would like to hear how many actually use the
> > >> diagram tree in their work?  And if the diagram tree became more

Do you think it would be better if the Tree View was per document, instead
of showing all open documents?

> > >> tree-like (i.e. with groups and parents forming extra branches), would
> > >> more people use it?

I am fairly sure this is how the other implementation of Tree View
(Document Explorer in Visio I think) does it.

> > If this is with 0.91, then most likely text rendering is to blame.
> > Especially when using AA, it has taken a performance hit,  I think there
> > are some caching opportunities we're missing so far.
>
> I'm building from CVS on Debian unstable.  One thing I've noticed that ERwin does is that it gives up on rendering text below a certain magnification threshold because the text would not be legible anyway.  I realize this may not be practical for Dia, but it's an idea.
>
> What is "AA"?

Annoying Acronyms
Automobile Association

Anti Aliased Text.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/