Re: Automaticall open new diagram

[Jeffrey Kern <the xtype gmail com>]

Firstly, I did not suggest that it should be remove.
Only that there should be the option to suppress this behavior if so desired.

> If you have not specified the document you want to open, do you not
> usually want a new blank window instead?

No.
I usually launch dia from the enlightenment menu and then click
File->Open and select the file(s) I wish to edit.
The new behavior causes there to be two windows open. The one that I
want to edit, and a new, blank, diagram which I may not have wanted.

I imagine that anyone using a gnome panel icon or desktop icon would
experience much the same? Unless they are in the habit of using an FM
to drag-and-drop files.

I do not think that this feature is necessarily bad.
I just think that it should be an optional behavior.

Cheers,
-Jeff


On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:15:17 +0000 (GMT), Alan Horkan
<horkana maths tcd ie> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Jeffrey Kern wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:59:37 -0600
> > From: Jeffrey Kern <the xtype gmail com>
> > To: dia-list gnome org
> > Subject: Automaticall open new diagram
> >
> > "-Automaticall open new diagram if now chosen at start."
> >
> > Can we add a command line flag to disable this?
> >   -w, --withholdnew                    Don not open new diagram.
> 
> Patches always welcome. (not sure if it is currently possible to disable
> this option).
> 
> > I do not think that it should be forced as the default behavior.
> 
> I must ask why?  What problems are you having with it?
> 
> If you have not specified the document you want to open, do you not
> usually want a new blank window instead?
> 
> If this feature turned out to be a really bad idea it could be changed but
> I want to be absoultely sure that the feature cannot be improved or there
> is a problem that cannot be fixed before rejecting or removing it.
> 
> Sincerely
> 
> Alan Horkan
> 
>