Hello everyone,
I've discovered dia today, have used version 0.88.1 for
several hours today and am quite impressed. :)
I'm quite surprised by the lack of updates on the web site,
though. When I first came to it and saw the date of last
news item, I thought dia was yet another unfinished, dead
pr
On Thursday 11 April 2002 08:15, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
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> > > You may have more luck by downloading a snapshot and
> > > running ./configure right away (no ./autogen.sh !).
> >
> > Sorry but where there is a snapshot ?
>
> http://www.crans.org/~chepelov/dia/snapshots (as the Dia
> ChangeLog Dae
On Thursday 11 April 2002 15:24, Adrien Beau wrote:
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> The patch below lists the correction
> I've made in order to run configure successfully.
Err, the script was not the only screw up of the day... :(
Here is the patch:
*** dia-cvs-snapshot-20020408-0724/configureMon Apr 8
On Thursday 11 April 2002 22:21, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
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> You should never patch a configure script; always the
> configure.in source or one of the M4 macros which contribute
> to builing the configure script
I wasn't sure I had a sufficiently recent release of
autothingy tools. My point was
On Thursday 11 April 2002 23:41, Didier Bretin wrote:
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> Yes the modification of the 'configure' script given by
> Adrien allow me to pass through the configuration phase.
>
> The file unicode.h is in which devel package ?!?!
On Slackware, the file is included in the libunicode
package. I have l
On Friday 12 April 2002 00:38, Didier Bretin wrote:
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> (see the original post for the big error message)
>
> Any idea ?!?!?! :o)))
Obviously, the linker had no clue about libunicode. Since
it is not on the command line, that means that it must be
in one of the directories the linker knows about.
On Friday 12 April 2002 01:03, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
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> > It looked to me as if someone had done a messy cut n' paste
> > and hadn't looked back.
>
> Could be. I have that kind of problems of "random paste" in
> NTemacs when alt-tabbing between it and Borland C++ Builder.
> Of course when that
On Friday 12 April 2002 06:33, Garner, Jaime wrote:
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> does any one have more complete set of network Icons for DIA.
I dare to think that if anyone on this list had any kind of
new Dia shape, they would already have shared it.
I'm a newbie to this list, so take this with a grain of salt.
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On Saturday 13 April 2002 12:46, D. Stimits wrote:
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> Steffen Macke wrote:
> > I would like to fix this, but it looks like
> > the website is not updated from the CVS anymore.
> > I added the link for the windows binaries on the download
> > page two days ago, but they still didn't show up.
>
> A
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 22:02, Greg Trounson wrote:
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> However I am now having trouble compiling the CVS versions
> and haven't found any related discussions on this list.
I went into the problem myself last Thursday. I have posted a
quick n' dirty patch to get past this problem.
Look in the a
On Friday 19 April 2002 13:38, Feisal Mohammed wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I am getting this for the dia-CVS-20020417-0723.tar.gz
> snapshot, when running configure
>
> ./configure.lineno: 9314: Syntax error: "fi" unexpected
>
> On checking configure, there is a problem but it extends
> further so repairin
On Sunday 21 April 2002 14:43, Lars Clausen wrote:
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> http://www106.pair.com/rhp/free-software-ui.html> about
> user interfaces in open-source software, I would like to hear
> if anybody on the list knows something about user interfaces
> (more than just from having used a bunch). If there are a
On Monday 22 April 2002 10:28, Lars Clausen wrote:
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> Ctrl-A should be Select All. I'd like to make Front and Back
> be Ctrl-> and Ctrl-<, but those are clumsy on US keyboards.
One of the problems with key bindings is that if they use
something other than letters, they always are clumsy on at
l
On Monday 22 April 2002 12:11, Mark Rages wrote:
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> Thanks for the information.
>
> However, I still can't get the snapshot to compile. I get an
> error like this:
>
> ...
> checking for GDK_PIXBUF - version >= 0.7.0... yes
> checking for png_read_info in -lpng... yes
> ./configure: line 9315: sy
On Monday 22 April 2002 12:01, Alan Horkan wrote:
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> Taking a similar function as an example
> Ctrl++ and Ctrl+- are used for Zoom In/Out
> but some cleverer programs realise that + is in fact Shift =
> and allow both = and + (some programs allow only = which i
> find annoying)
>
> Or maybe i am
On Monday 22 April 2002 12:46, Mark Rages wrote:
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> Now it ./configure's OK, but instantly fails compiling:
>
> In file included from font.h:24,
> from render.h:27,
> from object.h:31,
> from diagramdata.h:26,
> from diagramdata.
On Monday 22 April 2002 12:36, Lars Clausen wrote:
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> AZERTY is evil. They require shift to do numbers. I hated
> them the entire time I was in Rennes.
Actually, putting ~#{}[]|`\^ and @ as "third class" symbols
reachable only with the AltGr key is far worse in my opinion.
But we're digressing
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 07:43, Ben Hetland wrote:
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> The Norwegian keyboard also has this "third class" mania...
> Some priorities are very strange, for example the so
> important @ as AltGr-2, while the ยค (generic currency?) being
> at Shift-4. I never use the latter, anyone know what it's
> us
On Sunday 21 April 2002 14:43, Lars Clausen wrote:
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> If there are any,
> could you point out the worst problems that Dia has in its
> interface? I'd like to turn some attention to that as we
> work towards a 1.0 release.
It's a minor problem, but it seems to me that "Diagram modified!"
is almo
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 08:44, Alan Horkan wrote:
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> > I completely agree. This behaviour is unexpected, and it
> > seems to be "destructive". Is there a way to cancel the
> > shortcut assignment you just made?
>
> In gtk while hovering over a menu item press any letter (or
> combination) tochan
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 10:11, Lars Clausen wrote:
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> I agree with you on this. I have considered removing the !,
I've read the Interface Hall of Shame, as pointed to by
Alan Horkan (http://www.iarchitect.com/shame.htm), and
this is one of the things you can learn on this big page.
> (...)
>
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 12:33, Lars Clausen wrote:
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> The only thing I *really* want to see in the start-up hints
> is mention of the right and middle mouse menus. I've seen
> reviews of Gimp complaining about how little you could do
> because the reviewer never figured out the right mouse menu
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 12:21, Lars Clausen wrote:
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> This is not quite true: If you select a tool from one sheet,
> then change to another, the indication is wrong.
Yet, I think it is obvious the user must be able to know
at any time which tool he is using.
> Actually, I'm thinking if anythi
On Wednesday 01 May 2002 04:56 PDT, Alan Horkan wrote:
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> My primary concern is the size of this new dialog, and will
> it work on smaller 400x600 displays. (the Gimp
> installer/first use setup screen does not fit or even resize
> for smaller monitors, and various dialogs in other Gnome/Gtk
> p
On Thursday 02 May 2002 11:01 PDT, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
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> Export the dia file into a WMF file (Export in computer
> parlance does not mean Rename, it really means Export. Open
> your eyes and the file menu at the same time). Then, import
> the resulting wmf file into Word (also save as dia fo
On Saturday 25 May 2002 09:29 PDT, Alan Horkan wrote:
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> The installer generates a batch file that sets the %HOME%
> variable every time and then calls dia. I think it would be
> much simpler to just add the following line to the
> autoexec.bat file:
> SET HOME=%windir%REM Dia expects a Home
On Sunday 02 June 2002 22:15 PDT, Jake Kula wrote:
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> When I click the icon to start it, it
> starts (the DIA window comes up and it looks as if it will
> start, but then it just dissapears).
A good way to have more information about what happens is
to launch a terminal (a.k.a. Konsole, Eterm, x
On Monday 03 June 2002 09:01 PDT, Jan Keirse wrote:
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> Hy, the patch works, but only partly: as long as I use
> courier as font, it is ok, but if I use another font (eg
> helvetica), it will continue to use courier.
> I get an error message Warning no X font for Helvetica found,
> using -*-courie
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