On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 12:08 +0530, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Lars Ræder Clausen <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I've always wondered about this myself... there are times when it'd be > >> really convenient! > > > > I tried. Figuring out when to disconnect what from what became *really* > > confusing. > > I think instead of allowing connection points at the ends of lines, we > should consider specific use-cases and provide abstractions for that. > I can see two cases: > > 1) A line that gets routed around ... we have a zig-zag line for that. > 2) A hyperedge, or something more general, a bunch of lines all > connected at one point. The direction of arrows can be settable. Here, > you can't "disconnect" one of the lines, you can only remove it > entirely from that hyperedge object.
You mean something like the Bus object from the Network sheet, but more generic? That could be useful. Also possibly: 3) A connection object -- a circle with only the middle (main) connection point. Easier to move and connect to than the normal circle, since you'd avoid all the extra connection points. -Lars _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
