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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Usability issue to connection shape
From:       Yue Liu <opuspace () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-10-30 3:18:28
Message-ID: AANLkTinSE3er6pu6n9B14m9==9O163OgKOBLgos+0RV- () mail ! gmail ! com
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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 <zander@kde.org> 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?
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> Thomas Zander
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