[Uml-devel] Suggestions

[Sebastian Stein]

Jörg Walter <ehrlich at ich.bin.kein.hoschi.de> [021104 17:14]:
> > > - PNG export is off-by-one, last row of pixels is missing (try saving
> > > just a class with no other elements below it)
> ...

I can see now the bug. I will add it to the bug tracking system!

> > Good point, please submit it to the feature tracker (see sig) in category
> > interface improvements.
> 
> I assume the feature tracker is your preferred way for suggestions? Then I 
> will use that from now on. You will hear from me via mail if I can't stand a 
> bug so much that I create a patch :-)

The best way to submit a feature request is to send a patch adding this
feature ;-) The second way should be to add the request to the tracker and
join the discussion on the uml-devel list. Every feature request or bug
report is forwarded to the uml-devel list. So if you want to make some
patches you should submit them to the list, so that everybody can review the
patch and maybe give you some tipps for improvement. If there is nothing to
be improved than someone with CVS access will commit patches to the cvs
tree.

> Oh, just one thing: I worked with kivio a bit, and with Qt designer, and
> there are two interface ideas I like much. This might be, however, be a
> matter of taste and changes current behaviour: Kivio has solved the
> connection alignment problem quite well, but requires more manual
> interaction (no automatic repositioning of connection starts). On the
> whole, I consider this the better solution. The nice idea in Qt designer
> is the selection mode of tools. Single click, and the corresponding tool
> is used just once and then goes back to the previous tool. Handy for
> adding that one connection which was missing. Double-click and the tool is
> permanently selected, handy for adding heaps of classes to start a
> diagram. The advantage over the shift-keypress is that you don't need to
> leave the mouse if you are tweaking your diagram, rearranging connections,
> changing connection type (that is, deleting and re-adding) and the like.

First of all I don't like the idea with double-click to stay with the tool
and one click to go back to the previous tool after one use. But I agree
that this is very much a question of taste. So we should discuss it. Maybe
an option to switch between both modes would be ok, but it would also mean
to make the whole design more complex.
 
Steinchen

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