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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Meeting decisions
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2007-10-27 16:54:47
Message-ID: 200710271854.49335.boud () valdyas ! org
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On Saturday 27 October 2007, Casper Boemann wrote:
> On Saturday 27 October 2007, Thomas Zander wrote:

<...>

I'm not going to try to answer the points you made point-by-point, but rather 
try to present our reasoning in a more coherent way. After trying out the 
current implementation and noticing some problems with the handling from a 
user point of view, we decided to go back to the only really usable 
diagramming application in existence: OmniGraffle 
(http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/). In fact, OmniGraffle is 
not just usable, but fun. We had a lot of trouble dragging fascinated KOffice 
developers away from Mek's mac...

Connectors in that application have the following properties:

* are tangible objects on the canvas
* can be selected
* have properties (like a label, but also line drawing properties)
* come in curve, angular, straight and other varieties
* can be connected to each other (very useful for lots of types of diagrams)
* can be dragged; if you drag one point away from one shape, then the other 
point from the other shape, then you can drag the connector (with all its 
settings and properties) to another place, and connect it other shapes.
* Are subject to the constraints of grids, but more importantly auto-snapping 
guides

So, basically we came to the conclusion that connectors in OmniGraffle were 
exactly like our path shape, but with connectors and some autolayout 
functionality.

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi

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