Button to align thoughts

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I read somewhere that aligning thoughts is possible in labyrinth. It is not
very discoverable, though.

I think a button that expanded when clicked, giving you several
possibilities, would be most useful. I'm attaching a quick mockup.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by frandavi...@gmail.com on 9 Apr 2008 at 3:53

Attachments:

• Pantallazo-1.png

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This looks really good. In fact you can align left-vertically and 
top-horizontally
with ctrl + f and g in recent svn-versions, but this was done only as a 
proof-of-concept.

Original comment by matthias...@gmail.com on 9 Apr 2008 at 3:59

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement, release0.5
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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By the way, I got the icons from openoffice. Would it be a problem to recycle 
them?

Original comment by frandavi...@gmail.com on 9 Apr 2008 at 4:01

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The first thing, I added your suggestion. See [1] for some results.

The second thing are the icons. What I used here are some stock icons, however 
I am
worried they are not available to all users. Another problem with them is, that 
I
can't find one for horizontal centering. Regarding yours, they are part of the 
Art
Libre Icon Project, but using icons from files is not the very best idea imho.

[1] http://studwww.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de/~s_vogelg/alignment.png

Original comment by matthias...@gmail.com on 10 Apr 2008 at 1:23

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Original comment by matthias...@gmail.com on 10 Apr 2008 at 1:26

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Original comment by matthias...@gmail.com on 10 Apr 2008 at 3:14

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What does clicking the actual button (as opposed to clicking the drop-down 
arrow) do?
Is the arrow really necessary, or could the button itself launch the menu?

Taking a look at Inkscape I've thought a "distribute" menu, just like the 
"align"
one, might come in handy for really good-looking maps. Might be a bit over the 
top,
though. What do you think?

Original comment by frandavi...@gmail.com on 10 Apr 2008 at 4:02

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Clicking the button just does what it's on it. It works like a spreadsheet 
border
widget. When you choose one of the menu items, the button gets that icon and 
does the
action the next time you click on it. The arrow is necessary since it is the 
only way
to combine a tool item with a popup menu. It is pretty much like Tomboys format 
tool
menus.

Original comment by matthias...@gmail.com on 10 Apr 2008 at 11:15