On 2011-06-10 19:20, Josh Andler wrote:
It would be really nice if someone would look into some of the issues with the connector tool, especially since they keep adding up and rarely get redued. It seems that at this point it is unmaintained and unfinished, which to me puts it in the same category as the our disabled technical/lpe tool. Meaning that if it doesn't see love by the time we're wrapping up 0.50 (or whatever that version will be), I personally feel that it should be disabled at that point and will request a vote. I know people have used it, it's cruft is in their documents, but if it's not going to be given a serious go, it makes no sense to have it. Just wanting to bring the issue up with plenty of notice.
I've never (or at least hardly ever) used it, and in part that's because it's limited to a connector tool. In my opinion it would be much more useful to instead have a tool that allows one to specify certain relations between points/objects. By being able to "remember" the alignments applied by the align and distribute dialog for example. Although I think it might make sense to go beyond that by also "remembering" offsets and perhaps even boolean ops.
Such a tool would make it easier to create diagrams while also helping in many other situations and would therefore be more likely to be maintained. And although it won't cover all connector related functionality, at the very least it should make it easier to implement the connector tool and reduce its need for maintenance.