[Pkg-dia-team] Bug#405831: dia: Minimal visual feedback when adding connection point to line

[Greg Kochanski]

Package: dia
Version: 0.95.0-4.1+b1
Severity: minor


If you select a line, right click on it, and select "add connection point",
you don't get any obvious visual feedback that something has happened.  
There is a little (tiny!) faint blue "x" that appears, but it is so small
that it can easily be lost.    This problem is especially severe
when the line width is about half of the size of the "x".

Needless to say, this problem is especially severe with thick blue
lines, especially colors near #1095D8.

I'd suggest three changes:
1) the connection point color be chosen not to match the background or
the line color.
2) The connection point should be highlighted or bold or bigger for
a moment when it is first created,
3) The connection point size be made adjustable (if it isn't already),
and the default be made a little bigger.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages dia depends on:
ii  dia-common                0.95.0-4.1     Diagram editor (common files)
ii  dia-libs                  0.95.0-4.1+b1  Diagram editor (library files)
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.17-1       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.12.3-1       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                     2.3.6.ds1-8    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                 1.2.4-4        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1            2.4.1-2        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6              2.2.1-5        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.12.4-2       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.8.20-3       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   1:1.0.1-2      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.14.8-4       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0                  1.10-3         lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    1:1.0.1-3      X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.3-4      X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1               1.1.7-4        X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                  1:1.0.1-2      X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3                1:4.0.1-5      X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                    1:1.0.1-4      X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1              1:1.0.1-4.1    X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                   2.6.27.dfsg-1  GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2                2:1.1.0.2-5    X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.1-3      X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-13     compression library - runtime

Versions of packages dia recommends:
pn  gsfonts-x11                   <none>     (no description available)

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