Hi,
I agree that this would be helpfull for Draw, as drawing is the most obvious
activity there. Like astaron said, most drawing applications will keep the
tool active after one action.
Note that I didn't say that. I think Federico mentioned something
along these lines in his bug, but he probably didn't make a complete
competitive analysis either.
But: the drawing toolbar is used in other modules as well. I'm not sure,
if the implementation is different for modules, but at least for impress
it would be the same.
I think there are two implementations: one for Writer and Calc, and
one for Draw/Impress. Correct me if I'm wrong. This bug for instance
was fixed in Impress/Draw but not in Writer:
http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3545#c42
What is really confusing is that it is not obvious, if a tool is "sticky"
or not.
See the Catia example – but I'm not sure that's a good solution since
it is somehow unnatural to double click toolbar icons. (Sorry, I can't
present links to any HIGs or such right now.)
E.g. Double click on rectangle will make the rectangle shape
in standard shapes sticky. But as this is hidden in a floating toolbar,
user has no info about this status.
The current behaviour looks like someone forgot to remove the leftmost
buttons (line, line/arrow, rectangle, ellipse) when reworking them as
aliases for the Lines and Arrows and Basic Shapes tools. I am pretty
sure that in older versions of Ooo the line, line with arrow,
rectangle and ellipse buttons could be depressed.
The buttons in Writer and Calc suffer from a similar bug: they work,
but none shows can be depressed. (I am using 3.4.1, so if you've
already fixed that I don't know.)
Astron.
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