Re: ANN: Graphos 0.4

[William F. Adams]

On Apr 3, 6:03 pm, Riccardo Mottola <r...@gnu.org> wrote:
> G R A P H O S   0.4
> What's next:
> ------------
>
> Printing needs to be improved, some tools are still missing, but the
> application surely improved!

Big improvement. Some observations:

 - <shift> constrain is too aggressive --- it shouldn't force the on-
curve point into a line w/ the previous on-curve point
 - it shouldn't be necessary to switch to the hollow arrow tool to sub-
select --- that should be an _option_ --- the program should be smart
enough to figure out when I want to select an object (click somewhere
other than a node), when I want to manipulate a node (click on / very
close to a point or drag-select so that I only select a node)
 - it should be possible to click-hold and drag an object --- this
burlesque of clicking to select, then re-clicking to initiate a drag
is a bad waste of time / clicks
 - click to select should be more forgiving --- currently the
requirement isn't lax at all --- there should be an option to set how
many pixels off one can be
 - need drag-select to select multiple objects
 - need to be able to un-group rectangles (and the rectangle tool
should be generalized to allow one to make other polygons --- for
bonus points, when grouping an object, if it's a polygon, restore it
to being such)
 - polygons need an option for rounding corners

and all the other stuff I mentioned before.

Things I may've forgotten:

 - holding down <Command> should switch to the solid arrow tool
 - it should be possible to put text into a box or graphic
 - text boxes should have options for auto-sizing horizontally and
vertically and separate options for fill, stroke, &c.
 - need to be able to live-edit text on the page, have more than one
font per text box, &c.

William