Because Xournal doesn't have "line" unit.
It's a drawing...
How do you know how much big you write or how high a "line" of handwritten text is?
But sometimes there is a line height, o developer of this code. ;-)
Your objections above make perfect sense for the ink of the hand-written notes, but the underlying stationary has a distance between the lines. Could the stationary selection also set a corresponding sensible scrolling size?
I was thinking that the person asking for this might have been using Xournal as I have sometimes, taking pages of TYPED notes, but clicking inside the text widget and using arrow keys.
But sometimes there is a line height, o developer of this code. ;-)
Your objections above make perfect sense for the ink of the hand-written notes, but the underlying stationary has a distance between the lines. Could the stationary selection also set a corresponding sensible scrolling size?
Thanks! That's exactly what I was trying to say. Scrolling by exactly one line wouldn't be optimal, but if you scrolled by, say, 2-1/2 lines (just an example), it would be better. The problem isn't so much a matter of how far the button/key/gesture/whatever scrolls it by, but the fact that until now it's been (as far as I can tell) arbitrary. If we assume the user writes more-or-less within the lines on the lined paper, then a reasonable step size based on the lines would be a lot more useful. Unless someone comes up with something brilliant, it's probably only practical to ignore the case of someone that disregards the lines completely, however.
I was thinking that the person asking for this might have been using Xournal as I have sometimes, taking pages of TYPED notes, but clicking inside the text widget and using arrow keys.
Good thought, but actually no. I just have messy writing, and thus when taking written notes at the speed of the lecture, I spend almost more time panning (due to the zoom level) than I do writing. The current state kind of ruins my use-case. :P
...That does bring up another point, though. Xournal's capability for annotating PDFs is one of its best features, in my opinion - especially for filling out forms or the skeleton notes some profs distribute in advance. In these cases, there are often no visible line markings, but the concept of a "line" is actually more important than when writing freely. I don't know if it would make sense to allow adjustment of line spacing in general, but that would make a big difference for this sort of use. I'm mentioning this just so you can keep it in mind as you design this and then next-gen UI, but I'm not too concerned about it.
Anyhow, great work so far.
Is there a hidden menu somewhere? The Diablo version seemed to be much more complete. What am I missing?
I believe Anidel sort of gutted it at the beginning, to ease the port. He's been adding features back in along the way, but Maemo 5's HIG is substantially different, and I would guess that Xournal probably isn't the easiest app to redesign to fit that.
Anidel,
I'm really excited about xournal for the N900. Currently, I could use the features in the chinook version. Is there a way to get that version to install? (It says it needs libhildonhelp0 and won't install it.) Also, any news about the N900 version? I keep checking here and on your blog. It's going to be awesome!
