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Bug 343220

Summary: [modeling] create layout for focused diagrams
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Benjamin Muskalla <b.muskalla>
Component: MylynAssignee: Miles Parker <milesparker>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: greensopinion
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Bug Blocks: 355019    

Description Benjamin Muskalla CLA 2011-04-18 19:37:08 EDT 
Depending on the use-case, we may want to investigate a new layout of focused diagrams. This may involve layouting based on the current interest and landmark of the model elements.
Comment 1 Miles Parker CLA 2011-07-11 21:27:46 EDT 
See bug 343220. Carries some of the same issues, though could be more workable for those diagram tools that already have some mechanism for assigning relationship (edge) importance level/ranking for auto-layout. For example in some graph layout programs such as graphvis the auto-layout is based on the order and type of relationships between nodes. But Zest doesn't support this in any of their layout algorithms, and I'd be a bit surprised if other Eclipse hosted tools did. This task should probably go in the "nice to have" heap unless there is a really compelling use case.
Comment 2 Miles Parker CLA 2011-08-12 18:14:41 EDT 
Let's have some feedback on this one. If people are interested in seeing it move forward we're going to have to think through it quite a bit.
Comment 3 Miles Parker CLA 2011-09-08 19:12:58 EDT 
I think everyone is pretty much agreed that the current solution trumps any layout based solution. Feel free to reopen if anyone would like to revisit.