Created attachment 197124 [details] An example diagram with some connectors, placed manually One of diagrams which people use Draw (or Impress) to produce is, essentially, a graph of drawing shapes as vertices, often rectangular but not just, with connectors - straight-line or with right-angles - connecting them, as the edges. As these graphs get bigger, it becomes more difficult and unweildy to arrange them automatically on a page - to reduce overall connector length, connector intersections, and general confusion. Software for "graph drawing" like gv offer such functionality - or something similar - outside of LO. It would be nice if LO Draw/Impress offered the functionality of auto-arranging such shapes on a page or slide, and configuring the connectors, for some kind of pleasant result.
Sounds like SmartArt, bug 37932 / bug 106547. If there are special algorithm to arrange connectors I could imagine it would be a nice fit for an extension.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1) > Sounds like SmartArt, bug 37932 / bug 106547. If there are special algorithm > to arrange connectors I could imagine it would be a nice fit for an > extension. SmartArt would be an apriori-fixed and neatly arranged diagram, which one then tweaks manually. This is about arranging a huge space of potential graphs. Utilities like graphviz (https://graphviz.org) employ one of several graph drawing engines to do this. See an example of Graphviz in action with an online editor/playground: https://edotor.net