Hey Hans,
You've asked for pretty much where the direction of the discussion has gone. I've just taken a hatched to the code to remove the absolute user defined points as well as the code to add them, all the editor mode work and basically I've reverted back to just having a central handle with my additions of having group anchors it works well enough[1] for a system of manually creating your anchors with the xml editor could be.
I think that's what I'm going to call these single point path object is 'svg dots' or just dots for short. Because we've already really over used the term points in the code.
Research continues on the best way to move from a cleaner codebase into providing the adding/deleting functionality required.
Martin,
[1] Will a bug that handles once joined with an object aren't cleared away. oops.
On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 13:22 +0200, Hans-Jürgen Hay wrote:
I don't know anything of the code base nor do I have any time to work on this in any capacity but envision the idea could lead to better diagram layout and improved usability.