[Pkg-dia-team] Bug#406904: dia: Misleading visual feedback upon object creation

[Greg Kochanski]

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


When you create an object, you are presented
with a set of little green handles and
an arrow cursor.    This is misleading
because it implies that you can left-click
and drag the handles.    That's not so:
if you left-click, you simply end up creating
another object.

Ideally, the user interface should provide some
way of distinguishing this situation
(where a right-click on the object is possible, but a
left-button-down will create a new object)
from the situation where you have selected
the pointer tool, then selected an object.
(In this latter case, a left-button-down will let
you drag around the handles.)

I'd suggest that the arrow cursor be used only
for the pointer tool.  Pick some other cursor
for object creation tools.   It doesn't have
to be dramatically different, just different
enough to remind the user.


-- 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               1.12.4-1       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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