Hi all I've been using Dia for some time but keep running up against a problem I see when changing object properties.
Namely, other technical drawing or DTP applications I use will, when you right click on an object, show you that object's properties. In Dia, however, when you right-click on an object, you'll be shown the properties of the object you last left-clicked on. For reference, applications that follow the first behaviour include Visio, Office, Open Office, Inkscape, and Illustrator. I opened a bug earlier in the year and had a very short back and forth with Hans, but I don't think I described the problem very well and Bugzilla isn't the place for discussion. The bug was here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580740 An example: In Dia (0.96.1 from Jaunty .deb, or 0.97, built from SVN): Create two boxes. Left-click on the first to select it. If you right-click the second box and choose properties, you're presented with the properties of the first box. This is because the right-click isn't selecting the second box. In Inkskape (0.46, Jaunty .deb): Create two boxes. If you left-click select object 1, right click object 2 and choose "object properties", you see the properties for object 2. Why do I care about this? Simply because if you want to change the properties of many objects, you need that extra left-click for each of them. It slows you down... and I have to keep retraining myself to use Dia after using other apps. How do you guys perceive this? Best, A
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