Dia ChangeLog report for 2007-08-17 03:00:00 UTC (Fri 17 Aug)

2007-08-16 Thread Dia ChangeLog Daemon
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Re: New Dia shape repository / New CMOS and Digital shapes by Jason Klaus

2007-08-16 Thread Steffen Macke
> Does this mean that the shapes kept at > http://dia-installer.de/shapes.html will not be added to future releases > of dia? Not necessarily. However, it gives us more flexibility. Some things to consider: * On slower systems the sheet loading time is already quite long, adding the possibility t

Re: New Dia shape repository / New CMOS and Digital shapes by Jason Klaus

2007-08-16 Thread Lars Clausen
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 17:23 +0200, Steffen Macke wrote: > > Does this mean that the shapes kept at > > http://dia-installer.de/shapes.html will not be added to future releases > > of dia? > > Not necessarily. However, it gives us more flexibility. Some things to > consider: > > * On slower syste

Re: UI issue: Text edit mode

2007-08-16 Thread Lars Clausen
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 19:00 -0300, loli wrote: > On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:57:38 +0200, Lars Clausen wrote > > I'm strong considering splitting diagram editing into a "normal" mode > > and a "text-edit" mode. > > I always think of two different "text-edit" modes; for example, loading an > UML-BOX w

Re: UI issue: Text edit mode

2007-08-16 Thread Lars Clausen
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 11:06 -0300, loli wrote: > On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:57:38 +0200, Lars Clausen wrote > > I'm strong considering splitting diagram editing into a "normal" mode > > and a "text-edit" mode. It will allow for more powerful text editing > > down the road, use of more shortcuts in nor

Re: UI issue: Text edit mode

2007-08-16 Thread Lars Clausen
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 23:17 +0100, Nick Moore wrote: > I think option 1 would probably be the best. However, I'd offer > another method as well - double clicking on the item to start editing > the text. I know this currently brings up the properties - but I feel > normal users are much more likel

Re: UI issue: Text edit mode

2007-08-16 Thread Lars Clausen
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 00:23 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: > > > I have my doubts about what would be best for entering. My ideas so far > > are > > > > 1) Press "Enter" to start editing text. Pro: Frees all other keys for > > shortcuts. Con: Non-obvi

RE: UI issue: Text edit mode

2007-08-16 Thread Lars Clausen
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 11:25 +0930, Young, Robert wrote: > >I'm strong considering splitting diagram editing into a > >"normal" mode and a "text-edit" mode. It will allow for more > >powerful text editing down the road, use of more shortcuts in > >normal mode, avoidance of the "Delete destroys t

RE: UI issue: Text edit mode

2007-08-16 Thread Steve Brown
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: > I see no reason why starting text edit should not involve the keyboard, > given that editing usually involves the keyboard right afterwards. It's been quite a while since I actively used dia, but I'll pipe up here and say that, to me, clicking (or double

Re: UI issue: Text edit mode

2007-08-16 Thread Lars Clausen
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 06:37 -0700, Mark Dexter wrote: > I think this is a very good idea. I would also add a right-click Text > Edit option, analagous to the Rename option on File Manager. Mark > > On 8/9/07, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/10/07, Lars Clausen <[EMA

Re: Convert a .shape file to other formats

2007-08-16 Thread Lars Clausen
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 18:44 -0700, Xiaowei Yang wrote: > Dear all, > > I am trying dia out these days, and have a quick question. Is there a > command-line approach to convert a .shape file to other formats? It > seems dia does not take a .shape format file as input. There isn't, but the .shape

Re: Links in Documentation

2007-08-16 Thread Lars Clausen
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 16:43 -0700, Mark Dexter wrote: > Hi. In the Authors chapter, the links for GNOME Documentation Project > (http://www.gnome.org/gdp) and GNOME Documentation Status Table > (http://www.gnome.org/gdp/doctable/) don't work. Are there new URL's > for these or should they be remove

Re: New Dia shape repository / New CMOS and Digital shapes by Jason Klaus

2007-08-16 Thread Steffen Macke
> > http://dia-installer.de/shapes.html will not be added to future > > of dia? I've added more information for the two new shape packages. Including sample diagrams provided by Jason Klaus. This might be a way to expose how many shapes are actually available to potential dia users (I think we sho

Re: UI issue: Text edit mode

2007-08-16 Thread Sameer Sahasrabuddhe
On 8/17/07, Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm thinking this will be confusing, given the number of other things > that are being done using the mouse: Selecting, moving, resizing, > connecting, opening properties. I don't see why that will confuse the user. We do a lot of things with