Bryce Harrington wrote:
I wouldn't want to think I'm wasting my time by helping.
Actually, ...... it was probably good to get that off of the dialog, if only so that there are not 2 different OK buttons on the dialog, that do different things. Maybe a separate small dialog only for ID's could separate out that function, and put it into a clear and proper context.
OOdraw has a simple separate dialog just for naming a drawing object, like this:
http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/~rjamison/inkscape/files/oonameobject.png
....which only does that one thing. Maybe that would be good enough to allow users to still set the ID field, but not clutter up the properties dialog with two attributes that look similar and confusing to the user. This could be whipped together in Gtkmm in an hour or so, and I would be glad to do it.
Bob