options

[moses]

I've seen someone mourning about the ease of use of the options dialog in these forums. So I thought I'd try to come up with some ideas.
Especially in combination with the Diagram Appearance options, it gets rather frustrating :-).
A few suggestions, I wonder what others will have to say :
Break the options into several blocks, with less cryptic names. (one column of checkboxes would be highly appreciated). Probably a dialog like the one for element properties would be of better use ?
Don't mix "show" & "hide" on the Diagram Appearance. State that the bahaviour is also affected by a general option and vice -versa (the Alias usage is a good example, well done :-).
Allow for easy configuration sharing. (the nightmare when a new member of the team goes through the model without setting "Allow elongated use cases" on ..., or when another one wouldn't set the "Extend complexity" and the project calculations would be screwed up :-) ).
Allow for Diagram options copying ?
(ok, I have to admit, I am not a brave "clicker" :-) )

[thomaskilian]

I'm with you (especially when I remember that a few days ago Sparx itself was not able to name the right option). I guess it would be nice to store diagram settings according to a stereotype.