On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for your explanations. > > On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 11:08:09AM -0500, Lars Clausen wrote: >> No, Dia does not have hatches. We're more geared towards structured >> diagrams than vector art. It is a good suggestion, though. > > I see hatches mostly essential for technical diagrams, not > as a part of vector art. Ideally, the hatches should be > very flexible (colour, line style, angle, distance between > lines, ...).
Making any hatching would be a start, but I could see a fairly flexible system with some kind of 'hatch picker' like the color picker. >> 0.88.1 was quite unstable. 0.90 is much better. > > Yes, dia becomes definitely more and more stable. > Unfortunately, I had data losses on dia crashes. How about > an "auto-save" feature like in Emacs? I was thinking of that at some point, but didn't get around to it. Tied in with the undo stack and an idle timer it should be fairly easy. >> > functions are already there (but I did find them), or maybe >> > one could port good ol' XFig to GTK+? :-) >> >> That's been done: >> <URL:http://k332.feld.cvut.cz/~lemming/projects/gtkfig.html> > > This project seems to be not very active (last version 0.7.x > of 1999) and more a rewrite than a port. Well, I haven't tried it. > Anyway, I didn't mean this too serious, and of course, the "XFig vs. dia" > wasn't meant as a fight, more as a productive competition. It is certainly a good idea to get inspiration from each other. I used to use XFig, but I found the interface too cumbersome, so I switched to Dia. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
