Afief Halumi ha scritto:
> 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.
And there is also xfig, which takes just less than 1 second to start
(but you may don't like the GUI interaction model).
> Personally I think the best way is to implement both the external and
> the simple embedded editor.
There are so many editors out there, that it sounds me crazy to invent
yet another one..., and the requests for feature enhancements of a (too)
simple editor would quickly overcrowd the mailing lists and tickets.
Just a simple button that creates an empty drawing copying a template
from a folder (and opening an external editor on it) seems really the
right way to go, it would solve your particular problem, it would leave
you with the complete freedom to pick any already existing editor that
you like, or just write a new one from scratch, if you prefer.
T.
> 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
> >
>
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