Edge Viewer

[antimony27]

While making the latest poster for Linked Pasts, it became clear that having a on/off toggle that would allow the edge labels to be visible would be very useful.

Expected Behaviour

In the settings menu, provide an option for users to turn on the edge labels in the graph.

Current Behaviour

The edges show up when they are hovered over, but don't remain when the cursor goes elsewhere.

[SusanBrown]

Or make it possible to label edges somehow in the command menu? It might be useful to be able to label selectively rather than turning them all on or off. Could you give us a sense of what would be most easily implemented, @smurp ?

[antimony27]

This is working really well at the moment for turning all edge labels on and off. I imagine working through turning them off in the command panel might take considerably more time. Am I right @smurp ? If so, should we tackle this issue after the others we require for INKE in January? @SusanBrown

[smurp]

Take a look (in alpha and beta both) at the setting "Show adjacent edge labels" which when turned on shows labels on edges which are adjacent to nodes whose labels are turned on, if that makes sense?!?

Proposal "Edge Labelling Policy" Setting

I realize now that a more powerful approach would be a setting which provides an edge labelling policy choice:

• adjacent label edges adjacent to labelled nodes
• all label all edges
• hovered label only edges under the mouse
• never never label edges though this is pointless, yes?

Are there other policies which would make more sense or should be added to the choices?

I would imagine that there would be a single setting called Edge Labelling Policy with names as adjacent above.

@wolfmaul @SusanBrown @antimony27