Re: Another set of beginner questions

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Luc Pionchon wrote:

> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:35:37 +0300
> From: Luc Pionchon <luc handhelds org>
> Reply-To: discussions about usage and development of dia
>     <dia-list gnome org>
> To: discussions about usage and development of dia <dia-list gnome org>
> Subject: Re: Another set of beginner questions
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 18:26, Jim Clark wrote:
> > I want to change the box creation defaults for new boxes. I can see
> > how to create them and then edit the things I want to change (color
> > and padding) but I would like to be able to alter those for all future
> > boxes. Is there a way to change these--do not see such a dialog in the
> > preferences? Annoying to have to edit each one.
>
> When you double click any tool button (in the application window), you
> get a dialog for general preferences for this specific tool.
>
> It is a bit hidden. Maybe we could add to each tooltip something like
> "Double click for preferences" or something lighter ?

Ideally we'd have a tool options palette (like the gimp, at least in
principal) and even more ideally it would be shown by default docked to
the main window like a toolbar (more like many popular commercial graphics
applications).

I've also been meaning to add the option to have a standard toolbar (new,
save, open, etc) for quite a while.

Sincerely

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