Some Planet KDE readers have probably noticed some KOffice soft-freeze anouncing blog entries (1, 2). I want to jump on the bandwagon and write about a feature from the feature plan I just finished today.
It started already some days ago when I brought back dragging guide lines from rulers to the current open document of a KOffice application. As that was done in KOffice shared libraries all applications benefit from that after adding a few lines enabling it. The next thing I did was adding support for snapping to these guides lines when e.g. moving objects on the canvas. This was relatively easy as I only had to add a new snapping strategy to the existing snapping framework in the flake library.
As dragging guides lines to the canvas and snapping to them is only a nice start but not the whole thing, I worked the last 2 days to further improve the guide line support. So I implemented a guide line tool which is activated when the user double clicks on a guide line just dragged to the canvas. The tool helps in easily selecting single guide lines, moving them around, adding new lines, deleting existing ones and specifying exact guide line positions by using an input field. This makes it really a joy to manage guide lines in an interactive manner. And the best is that all KOffice applications are supported for free. I love code sharing!
And for those readers asking themselves what the hell I am talking about here is a short screencast demonstrating some of the things i just explained.
