Re: Dia: Why is it so hard to do simple things? dia-list Digest, Vol 89, Issue 7

2011-09-09 Thread Edheldil
On 09/08/2011 11:29 PM, Michael Ross wrote: > It is worth noting that many people like this software and work productively > with it who did not write it. [ To nobody in particular ] I have been a Dia user for quite a long time, even tried to create a new tool for it (http://www.eowyn.cz/dia/dia-

Re: dia components

2011-09-09 Thread Jasper Horn
Hi Michael, Both your first and this version of your question have been received. It's just that your first question hadn't received a reply. That's not all that strange a thing, considering that to answer it, someone randomly needs experience with dia on suse, which turns out not to be the case

Re: Dia: Why is it so hard to do simple things? dia-list Digest, Vol 89, Issue 7

2011-09-09 Thread Jasper Horn
Tech Support Department wrote: > Friend, I understand and share in your frustration.  As far as I can > understand it, the majority of the free and open source software (FOSS) > community is just creating software to serve their own needs.  That others > may use it is besides the point. You are mi

Re: Non-transparent background for custom shapes - possible?

2011-09-09 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, discussions about usage and development of dia! HB> But if you want an opaque textbox with shapes - like the draw background HB> option of Standard - Text - that's indeed not possible with resize="no". :/ That not sounds very good. Should I add it as an enhancement request to the track

Re: Dia: Why is it so hard to do simple things? dia-list Digest, Vol 89, Issue 7

2011-09-09 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Edheldil! > On the other hand, it's the best FOSS general diagramming tool we have > (which is sad, but that's life). Probably not OSS, but definitely free: http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html And works much better, also. The problem for me, it is Java (Read - it is using

Re: dia components

2011-09-09 Thread Steffen Macke
Hi Michael, On 09/09/2011 12:00 AM, Michael Scheepers wrote: I subsequently replaced SUSE with Linux Mint, however the default dia install available in Mint is missing a lot of the Network elements that were Could you give one concrete example? E.g. provide a sample diagram that contains one of

Re: Why is it so hard to do simple things? dia-list Digest, Vol 89, Issue 10

2011-09-09 Thread Tech Support Department
@Jasper Horn, There is a lot of confusion within the FOSS community. That one does not believe your assessment is correct is understandable in light of the many who state that they are creating their software primarily for their own use, and others who say that most programmers are doing it as