(2.5.2) Displacement/stiching: process upper left corner basic actions hard to perform

[arthur-parmentier]

I find a bit painful the user experience of simple actions such as displacing a process or attaching somewhere, setting its start and stop position relatively to other elements etc: basically everything that involves drag&drop is for me confusing and time-consumming. I would expect things to "snap" on to an other much more easily:

• case 1: I have two independent processes that are linked to nothing else. I would like that dropping one near the end of the other one proposes to attach them automatically
• case 2: when I drag and drop a circle element that is fixed on a vertical axis, I would expect to create a connection, without clicking the + button

Then, for a single process, the upper left corner has too many control points, they are tiny and do not help understanding the action that they allow to perform. The pointer is also inconsistent (it sometimes changes even if we can't perform any action on the process, such as a hand appearing when hovering over elements that we can't drag) and do not follow what I would call "conventions": I think that the cross pointer is really awful, I would suggest only using it for drawing or selecting elements.

[jcelerier]

hm, that's very good feedback, thank you. @bltzr case 1 is implementable relatively easily, do you think that would break workflows ?