| Summary: | Add Connectors with round Edges | ||
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| Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Damian Hofmann <damian.hofmann> |
| Component: | Draw | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
| Status: | NEW --- | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | CC: | buzea.bogdan, rb.henschel |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 99649 | ||
| Attachments: | Visual examples of "grouping" connectors with sharp vs rounded edges | ||
*** Bug 120323 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Sounds reasonable -> NEW |
Created attachment 145399 [details] Visual examples of "grouping" connectors with sharp vs rounded edges Please add a new connector type that works the same way as the standard one, but with rounded edges. In diagrams, when there are multiple connectors from multiple boxes, going into a single target box, I like to "group" them together into a single "lane". This reduces visual noise and communicates, that all these connections are similar. Using the connectors currently available in LO, I get close to the desired result. There is a small problem though. Because these connectors meet at straight angles, they do not guide the eye into the right direction. This can be a problem in large diagrams, when there is a distance between the connected boxes. A connector type with rounded edges would solve that quite elegantly. The lanes coming from multiple boxes would "flow" into the main lane going into the target box. See attachment for visual examples. In LO, I can create the result only by piecing together the connectors from curves, shapes and lines. Frankly, this isn't maintenable for large diagrams.