Greetings
First, it's very nice to have Dia. Currently, it is practically the only alternative for us in creating design diagrams about databases, programs etc. Thanks for the developers and all who have collaborated. However, there are few I find a tad annoying. Say you create a UML diagram and want to make clear distinction between some classes. So you decide to make classes A, B and C stand out by using mauve as background colour and bright red as foreground colour (ugh). You realise that you have to edit every class separately, because you can't select all of them and set their colors at once, and you end up with classes that are only roughly of the same colours. Of course you could copy one of the objects two times and change all attributes and operations again, but that'll take time. Annoyed and frustrated you'll learn that before creating classes you first decide how many of them you need, what their colours should be, and create an empty class, set the colours and copy that class n times. Then there's another thing related to visibility of an attribute or operation: now I have to select 'private' for each operation I'm going to make private. More user-friendly would be if I could first create all public operations, then select private, and it would default to private for every operation until I tell otherwise. ie. I think that every selection should default to last option selected, not the one that is coded as default in Dia. Last and probably also least :) it would be nice to have support for some icons in UML diagrams. Now the 'class scope' is denoted by underscore, and sometimes I have classes that have only one attribute that is related to the whole class. In those cases it's quite hard to see that there's an underscore below the attribute name, but an icon would be more clear (perhaps the icon would be user-defined?). '#', '+' and '-' are just fine, though with large UML diagrams containing lots of classes and stuff (say, over thirty entities in total) it might be better if the distinction was more apparent, like with icons, or at least the colours of characters '#', '+' and '-' were different. I hope I don't ask something that's discussed thoroughly several times :) -- # Edvard Majakari +35840 7150 969 # Project Manager Christian JAPH # PGP PUBLIC KEY available -- Persentio canto sum # Port Able Media Platforms Oy Ltd. http://www.pampltd.com/ _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
