[Uml-devel] [Bug 114892] Some attributes are too large for the frames

[Peter Soetens]

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------- Additional Comments From peter.soetens mech kuleuven be  2005-10-30 12:20 -------
On Saturday 29 October 2005 10:38, Oliver Kellogg wrote:
> ------- Additional Comments From okellogg users sourceforge net  2005-10-29
> 10:38 ------- SVN commit 475425 by okellogg:
>
> Give user the possibility to manually adjust the bounding box of widgets,
> i.e. merge class ResizableWidget into UMLWidget.
> BUG:114892


I'm not sure this will improve usability. Since the size of a widget can be 
calculated entirely based on the contents, user intervention will make the 
auto-resizing system more annoying/counter productive. For example, when is a 
manually set size overridden by umbrello ? when a new item is added/removed ? 
never ? Some widgets may be resizable, but all by default ? I really liked 
the way umbrello handled connection points of associations automatically. 
Compare with *nightmare* dia, moving an item on a diagram means reconnecting 
all associations to the proper side of the widget. I vote for tuning the 
auto-layout functions, instead of investing in things a user doesn't want to 
do in the first place.

Peter