https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44266
--- Comment #15 from sergio.calleg...@gmail.com --- Please, do not change my wishlist item to something else. My wishlist item is having something to favor the grid alignment of objects taken from the gallery. This is important (almost indispensable) for activities like technical drawing or chart drawing. Being able to visualize the objects taken out of the gallery during drag can be quite nice, but is not what I was asking in this wishlist item and does not help in this sense. Rationale: ========== Even if draw is not a program for technical drawing or chart drawing, it is my understanding that it aims at being sufficiently general purpose for these tasks (the availability of items such as layers, connectors and measurement lines appear to testify that this is the case). In some forms of technical/chart drawing you need to compose designs out of items/blocks that are taken out of a library and these items need to be carefully aligned before they are connected, otherwise the connectors get all sort of ugly skews and angles. Already, there are many users of libreoffice who employ it for drawing things like simple electrical or electronic circuits, simple sets of mechanical, hydraulic or fluid-dynamics blocks as well as simple charts, particularly in education, relying on libraries of blocks stored as gallery themes. For instance, see the LibreSymbols extension with electronic symbols (http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/libresymbols), or the Openoffice extension http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/freie-schaltzeichen, or the many questions like https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/2996/electrical-and-fluid-schematic-palettestemplates/ or tutorials like http://www.atlence.com/tips/show/creating-electronic-circuit-schematics-by-using-libreoffice-or-openoffice-org-5.html. Libreoffice itself provides themes of flow chart and diagram components! Having to manually fix the correct alignment for many tens of items is extremely cumbersome, particularly if the items have irregular shapes so that putting their left/right/top/bottom edge on grid is not enough. In this case, one needs to open the position properties dialog for each object, which is a pain. Please, be understanding and do not dismiss something as "making no sense" just because you do not have a need for it. Others may have. Possible implementation: ======================== a) Objects, including group objects already provide the opportunity of having glue points. When an object is stored in the gallery, its glue points are stored with the object. Let one glue point be marked as the object "orgin" b) When extracting objects from the gallery assure that whenever the object contains a glue point marked as the origin and "snap to grid is on" this special glue point is grid aligned This should minimize the implementation cost and makes sense because when you draw diagram like structures, you almost certainly want some of your glue points grid aligned (see rationale above). Furthermore, this suggestions does not interfere with the fact that the gallery can hold various object types and is available not only in Draw, since gallery objects store their glue points already. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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