On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> First off, congrats to the authors of dia! See, I get to choose which tool
> to use to draw UML diagrams here at work: Rational Rose or dia 0.84. And
> most of the time, dia wins hands down, in terms of ease of use and speed.
> But there's a few things that, IMO, need improvement (I'd fix them myself,
> but I'm usually a KDE/Qt programmer and not a Gnome/Gtk guy (or is that
> heresy?))
Ahhh!! Heresy! Kill him!! :)
> * The polyline doesn't seem to work at all: ik get a line with two
> endpoints and no other handles or connections.
Use the middle mouse button on the selected polyline, then you get a menu
where you can add/remove points.
> * The exported EPS files are *huge* (in terms of paper area). Some kind of
> scaling option would be nice, although that would involve putting in a
> whole range of export-to-yyyy configuration dialogs. And yes, I know that
> I can scale the EPS files when I import them into something else. It's
> just that I'm used to the ration between what XFig puts on the screen and
> what it puts on paper and the ration in dia is *way* different.
I think this is fixed in the CVS version.
> * Just about every dialog appears as a child of the root window. This is
> irritating with a window manager that does "smart" placement, since the
> dialog shows up miles from where I request the dialog. Besides, the
> dialogs don't grab the focus or put the text focus anywhere sensible. This
> means that if I doubleclick on an object (a UML message, for example) I
> get a dialog a million miles away; since all I want to do is type in the
> name of the message and hit enter I do that, only to realize that the
> stuff I type in isn't going to the text box there in the dialog and that
> enter doesn't bind to any of the buttons in the dialog. (Um, these are two
> different questions: why put dialogs on the root window and why don't
> dialogs grab the focus in a sensible way?)
Ummm, yeah, why... This is just polishing that just hasn't been done...
> (O yeah: how to subscribe to the dia-list? The dia-site has no
> instructions that I could find)
Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject
"subscribe".
/ Alex
