Bug 116476 - Enhance connectors with "line gap" / "slightly detached" feature (e.g. for diagrams or flow charts)
Summary: Enhance connectors with "line gap" / "slightly detached" feature (e.g. for di...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Draw (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.0.2.1 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Connectors
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Reported: 2018-03-18 19:19 UTC by Gerry
Modified: 2019-12-01 23:47 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Flow chart with line gaps (0.50 at beginning and end of arrow), exported from DIA (.png) (119.62 KB, image/png)
2018-03-18 19:26 UTC, Gerry
Details
Flow-chart-with-connectors-slightly-detached_exported-from-Pencil.pdf (32.33 KB, application/pdf)
2018-03-18 19:29 UTC, Gerry
Details

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Description Gerry 2018-03-18 19:19:09 UTC
Description:
Connectors are frequently used when drawing diagrams or flow charts. From a graphics design perspective, it should be possible that connectors/arrows in diagrams and flow charts do not directly contact the boxes, but rather to have a gap between the box and connector/arrow. Such a feature does not exist in Draw, but, for example, in the diagram editors Dia and Pencil. In both diagram editors it is possible to either set direct contact (default) or to add a gap between the connector/arrow and the box.

The diagram tool Pencil calls the feature: Connector is "slightly detached".
The diagram tool Dia calls the feature: "line gap" (with detailed adjustment possibilities for distances at line start and line end).

Please see attached screenshots of flow charts with the the "line gap" / "slightly detached" function created in Dia and Pencil.  

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Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.34 Safari/537.36
Comment 1 Gerry 2018-03-18 19:26:36 UTC
Created attachment 140695 [details]
Flow chart with line gaps (0.50 at beginning and end of arrow), exported from DIA (.png)
Comment 2 Gerry 2018-03-18 19:29:41 UTC
Created attachment 140696 [details]
Flow-chart-with-connectors-slightly-detached_exported-from-Pencil.pdf
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2018-03-21 21:05:46 UTC
Ok, sounds reasonable -> NEW
Comment 4 Gerhard Weydt 2019-12-01 23:47:51 UTC
Isn't it sufficient to place a gluepoint a little bit outside the object, setting, if necessary, its position absolute with respect to the edge of the object?