From koffice-devel Sat Oct 30 03:18:28 2010 From: Yue Liu Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 03:18:28 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: Usability issue to connection shape Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=128840875425871 That's a good idea. And we can enable delete function in path tool so that the shape selection mode would be totally useless to connection shape. I think enable user to delete a shape in the path tool won't cause any usability problem. On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Thomas Zander wrote: > On Friday 29. October 2010 16.57.56 Yue Liu wrote: >> Currently there is no difference between selecting a connection shape >> with selecting other shapes, but selecting a connection shape is >> useless. With a connection shape selected you can do nothing useful, >> it is in edit mode that you can move the endpoints of a connector or >> adjust connector routine. Is it possible to let connection shape enter >> edit mode automatically after selected? > > I think you are right, having a connector selected and moving it around with > the default tool is probably not very useful. > The green outline I see when I select a connection is making me wonder if we > want to select it in the first place. > While playing with one connection I noticed that if you have two shapes with a > connection in between its possible to select the connection. You can then > rotate and skew it, which just looks wrong. > > What may be a good idea is to make sure that whenever the user clicks the > connection he is automatically redirected to the path tool. This is possible by > adding some code to the default tool. (which is a plugin) > So instead of the default tool adding the shape to the selection on mouse > release, we instead activate the path tool. > > How does that sound? > -- > Thomas Zander > _______________________________________________ > koffice-devel mailing list > koffice-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel > _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel