On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:10:21 +0100 > From: Philip Van Hoof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: discussions about usage and development of dia <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Setting the properties of multiple selected objects in stead > of just one (the first or only selected->data) > > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 15:54 +0800, Zhang Lin-bo wrote: > > > I meant the current color is displayed 'greyed', but the user can still > > change > > the color, and once the user assigns a new color it is shown in the normal > > way > > (otherwise what color is displayed before the user making changes, blue, > > red, > > or green? :)) > > Currently it's the color of the first selected object in the selection > of objects. > > I haven't yet figured out how to know about which "default' property to > use for properties that can have such behaviour.
This recently came up on the gnome usability list http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2004-December/msg00072.html the standard convention is to show a blank (or sometimes greyed out) widget) if the selection contained a mix of different colours, ie to indicate an inconsistant state. setting the widget to red implies that all the objects in the selection have a red fill. if you set it to 'inconsistant' then users can set it to red, setting all the objects red. Hope I'm explaining this adequately. - Alan _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
