Surely a less MS-Paint level piece of code that is almost completely self contained will take next to no resources to maintain.
Dia is great for the task it is made for, but when you're in a lecture trying to take notes Dia is simply too slow, especially when you have a stylus. Personally I think the best way is to implement both the external and the simple embedded editor. On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/18/09, Afief Halumi <afie...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Obviously there are too many drawing editors, but for example gimp >> takes 5 seconds to start up, inkscape takes 3(on my laptop), which >> although not too big an issue it does break the attention and forces >> the user to wait for the computer to get ready, that's the advantage >> of a simple built in editor: it starts instantly for quick notes, and >> external editors can be used for the complex work. >> > There is also dia [1] for such tasks. In my view it would be bad for > the LyX developers to divert resources to creating a brand new > (simple) drawing editor when existing fully-featured external tools > could be used. > Liviu > > [1] http://live.gnome.org/Dia >
