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

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