9.0 whiteboard diagrams

[skiwi]

Some initial feedback

How, yes how, do I get the name, alias, or notes appear in, or beside, the new shapes and arrows that are available?

Its great to have arrows that are not connectors, but how can we rotate them to an arbitrary direction, surely this could have been available from the start?

Can we connect the callout arrow to a shape, or rotate it to sides, top, etc?

How do we fill them?

[skiwi]

A partial answer. There are properties settings for shape (but not thin arrows ?!?) name and fill

[skiwi]

Feature requests

double headed arrows (please)
lines (no headed arrows)
ability to position text (left, centre, right; top middle, bottom) in shape text box
ability to justify text (left, centred, right, full)

ability to move shape text box (as you can with connector text box, including using cursor keys to move and resize)
ability to fill (background) of text box

Feature request made

[skiwi]

Also some rotatable braces/parenthesis/brackets

viz


Note see also Ability to change text direction

[skiwi]

Can fill the background of a text box.

A circle, for example, does not honour the fill colour if it is a whiteboard diagram (see Diagram Properties), I guess that's by design!


So, unlike on a whiteboard or hand drawn diagram where you have huge flexibility these diagrams are highly constrained

• no rotation
• no double ended arrows
• no text justification
• no text positioning

v11 - pretty much a big fat no
I guess that means no one else would find this useful.