On 25 Jan, Alejandro Aguilar Sierra wrote:
> Alex,
>
> I'm including a patch with 6 new buttons for the toolbar. I don't know
> about others, but I find alignment very useful to handle several objects
> in a diagram. It's still missing the align function to distribute the
> selected objects at equal distance.
I don't know about this. It's an awful lot of buttons for that little
function. It might be better to have one align button and that
tool-properties dialog where you can define what kind of alignment you
want.
> The patch doesn't include code to insert the buttons in the toolbar. It
> just changes pixmaps.h and tool.h. I modified my local version of
> interface.c to do that, but I have a couple of problems: the button should
> not remain pushed once you click on it, for the kind of function that does
> alignment. Or maybe once you push the button you can make the same
> alignment in any number of diagrams by clicking on them.
>
> The other problem is that I don't know where to put the buttons, either
> after the scroll button, after the standard object buttons or in a
> separated section. So I decided that I was not the one to take that
> decision but you. :)
This way of using the toolbar for buttons isn't really obvious given
how the rest of the buttons work, maybe we'll need a separate section
for these types of button.
> BTW don't you find a bit weird that the first name of two of the guys
> currently interested in Dia form your own name? Me (Alejandro is Alexander
> in Spanish) and Lars? Maybe I get fool at midnight, after a very active
> weekend, but I found it funny. :)
Well, it's not THAT strange. Alexander is an old name which exists in
many countries, and Larsson basically means "Lars son", which is
swedish for "the son of Lars", and Lars is a common European name. It's
kinda funny though.
/ Alex
