Re: [Xournal-devel] Few more patches for Xournal

2016-09-05 Thread gi1242+xournal-devel
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 02:19:29PM -0400, Denis Auroux wrote: >> 1. Emergency save before crashing. >> >> On one of my computers I often got a dreaded "XError" through some >> broken Wacom driver, and it rudely crashed my Xournal losing all my >> work. > > In principle that bug was fixed i

Re: [Xournal-devel] Few more patches for Xournal

2016-09-05 Thread Denis Auroux
Hi there, > 1. Emergency save before crashing. > > On one of my computers I often got a dreaded "XError" through some > broken Wacom driver, and it rudely crashed my Xournal losing all my > work. In principle that bug was fixed in late 2010 and into release 0.4.6. Shouldn't ever XError an

Re: [Xournal-devel] Further improvements

2016-09-05 Thread Immi Halupczok
Am 04.09.2016 um 20:17 schrieb Denis Auroux: > Dear Immi, > >> (a) When I have a thin selection (which happens often if I have some >> small text, which I select by clicking on it) and I want to move it, I >> often accidentally resize it. Therefore, for thin selections, I'd make >> (in start_resi

Re: [Xournal-devel] line wrapping in text boxes and gnome-canvas-rich-text

2016-09-05 Thread Immi Halupczok
Am 05.09.2016 um 17:11 schrieb Denis Auroux: > Dear Immi, > > Given the very high complexity of text composition in non-Latin languages, > and given that everyone relies on the pango library to do the composition and > wrapping, I think it's a terrible idea to try and get too involved in the >

[Xournal-devel] Few more patches for Xournal

2016-09-05 Thread gi1242+xournal-devel
Hi All, In light of the recent discussion concerning new features, I thought I'd let you know about a few features I've been maintaining since 2007/2008 now. 1. Emergency save before crashing. On one of my computers I often got a dreaded "XError" through some broken Wacom driver, and it ru

Re: [Xournal-devel] line wrapping in text boxes and gnome-canvas-rich-text

2016-09-05 Thread Denis Auroux
Dear Immi, Given the very high complexity of text composition in non-Latin languages, and given that everyone relies on the pango library to do the composition and wrapping, I think it's a terrible idea to try and get too involved in the details of the wrapping. Font differences between systems

Re: [Xournal-devel] Further improvements

2016-09-05 Thread Immi Halupczok
>> (e) I'm using the "touchscreen as hand tool" feature, but I'd like to >> improve it: I'd also what that it behaves like many other touch screen >> aware programs in the way that you can "give it a kick" so that it goes >> on scrolling for a little while. (That's much more handy when scrolling >

Re: [Xournal-devel] line wrapping in text boxes and gnome-canvas-rich-text

2016-09-05 Thread Immi Halupczok
Another issue about the text boxes: If we use some gtk-feature to do the wrapping of the text for us, then there's the danger that when one rescale things, due to some roundings happening differently suddendly the wrapping changes. Similarly, wrapping could change when exporting to pdf... or ma

Re: [Xournal-devel] github and cleaning up my mess

2016-09-05 Thread Immi Halupczok
Hi, Am 04.09.2016 um 20:25 schrieb D M German: > > Hi everybody, > > as you know, i have been developing several features of xournal. Some of > them become integrated with xournal, others do not. > > But I try to keep them updated and ready to be integrated, in the chance > that one day they beco