[dia-list/nitpick] Bug titling
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 04:02:28PM -0700, Jonathan Neufeld wrote: > Synopsis: Unexpected crashing Sorry, isn't this a category of bug? When is a crash expected? I'm not even a dia developer, but I'd like to appeal to bug submitters to use more descriptive titles, or we risk having a bug list completely unparseable unless you read the bug texts one by one. Good title: Dia crashes when I tell it to jump on its left foot Bad title: Dia crashes unexpectedly See? Thanks. []s, |alo + -- Hack and Roll ( http://www.hackandroll.org ) News for, uh, whatever it is that we are. http://zope.gf.com.br/lalo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp key: http://zope.gf.com.br/lalo/pessoal/pgp Brazil of Darkness (RPG)--- http://zope.gf.com.br/BroDar
Re: Should we drop the imlib dependency alltogether?
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 10:19:07PM -0500, Lars Clausen wrote: > On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > #ifdef USE_IMLIB > >do_it_the_old_broken_way (); > > #else > > do_it_the_new_way_with_pixbuf (); > > #endif > > Way ahead of you:) That's the way it is now. The question is when we > should remove imlib support altogether. If that's the way it is, it is not broken, so don't fix it :-) When supporting the Imlib compatibility code becomes a burden, or pixbuf is known to be widely used (which is about 1.5 months after a version of gnome-core linked with pixbuf is declared stable enought for end-users release), remove it. Or in short: when maintaining it becomes a bigger pain than removing it. []s, |alo + -- Hack and Roll ( http://www.hackandroll.org ) News for, uh, whatever it is that we are. http://www.webcom.com/lalo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp key in the personal page Brazil of Darkness (RPG)--- http://zope.gf.com.br/BroDar
Re: Should we drop the imlib dependency alltogether?
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 09:23:03PM -0500, Lars Clausen wrote: > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I was wondering what people think of the idea of dropping imlib support > > in dia altogether in favour of gdk-pixbuf. The next version of > > I think we should keep it for now, since a lot of people will have imlib > compiled but not gdk-pixbuf... on the other hand, it's better to get the > changes out early. Code-wise, it doesn't matter much. #ifdef USE_IMLIB do_it_the_old_broken_way (); #else do_it_the_new_way_with_pixbuf (); #endif And of course use autoconf; if pixbuf is found, don't use imlib. (Of course I have a big mouth and I'm not writing any code, but this looks to me like the correct way to make progressive changes, specially when backwards compatibility is concerned.) []s, |alo + -- Hack and Roll ( http://www.hackandroll.org ) News for, uh, whatever it is that we are. http://www.webcom.com/lalo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp key in the personal page Brazil of Darkness (RPG)--- http://zope.gf.com.br/BroDar
Small feature request - some degree of state saving
One other thing I miss in dia is some state-saving. IMHO it should remember what object set (eg UML) you were using when you last closed it, and the last few files you edited, and perhaps the toolbar window geometry. (Not hard, .dia is already a directory, just add a "state" file under it) []s, |alo + -- Hack and Roll ( http://www.hackandroll.org ) News for, uh, whatever it is that we are. http://www.webcom.com/lalo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp key in the personal page Brazil of Darkness (RPG)--- http://zope.gf.com.br/BroDar
REPOST: Dia and UML
[Originally posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; I deleted the attachments to repost to the list, they may be found at http://zope.gf.com.br/lalo/uml-dia/ along with a webforum I'm offering as a gesture of goodwill ;-)] Ok, I was planning to just cool and wait, but then I read on the Dia webpages that you're wanting feedback. So, here is my wishlist, after trying to use Dia for real UML work: - I absolutely need more connection points to make things look good, specially on class diagrams. Having 5 instead of 3 in the top and bottom lines would do. - It tends to write labels on top of other things, making them unreadable. I end up having to limit the directions of my connections to avoid this. The ``right'' thing to do would be detecting a free spot to draw a label. - I'm fine with the connections, but a lot of people prefer to be able to make them run diagonally. - The ``constraint'' object sucks. You have to create it, then detach the label and attach it to the correct place (the other end of the connection line), and then if you need to move it you're screwed. - Of course, I'd like it to export (and if possible import) XMI. I'm sending you my diagrams, if you load them I believe you'll see what's aesthetically wrong right now. Oh, just to leave it documented for reference: I'm talking about 0.83. []s, |alo + -- I am Lalo of deB-org. You will be freed. Resistance is futile. http://www.webcom.com/lalo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp key in the web page Debian GNU/Linux --- http://www.debian.org Brazil of Darkness -- http://zope.gf.com.br/BroDar
Dia website
The sites of Free Software have been developing an annoying tendency to have the "news" page as the default one. Dia has the "about" page, which is IMHO the Right Thing (TM). Congratulations on a clean and useful site for a clean and nice program. []s, |alo + -- I am Lalo of deB-org. You will be freed. Resistance is futile. http://www.webcom.com/lalo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp key in the web page Debian GNU/Linux --http://www.debian.org
