> The menus on MB2 (middle) and MB3 (right) should be conveniences, > shortcuts to the main menu. I don't know what the Gnome usability folks > have to say about that, but it doesn't matter. The menu is the menu is > the menu: it contains the full set of options/commands to use the program.
I agree, FWIW. My personal preference would be to have everything on a menu bar (or floating menu) and have the right-click for context-sensitive options. But I know some people prefer the convenience of having the full menu where ever they click. Dia has an option to display a menu bar, but it disables the right-click menu elsewhere. Could I have both? > I looked at Dia's preferences with new eyes. Using > Glade, I mocked up a > new preferences dialog Could you post a screen shot, for those of us without Glade? > "Reverse dragging selects intersecting objects" Huh? This is a pretty common and useful features in CAD programs. "Reverse drag" means drawing the selection rectangle from right to left, rather than left to right (maybe "Reverse drag" is too Euro-centric). It selects objects fully and partially within the rectangle, not just fully within as when dragging from left to right. It would nice if the alternative selection method it invoked was configurable, for example "Select objects outside of rectangle", "Select objects outside and intersecting rectangle", "Select objects insider rectangle", etc. The confusion on this option points to two general improvement could be made to Dia's interface: context sensitive help and help buttons wired to the help file. Are there any GTK+ applications that have this capability, that the code could be borrowed from? Rob Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
